[WikiEN-l] An open letter to Jimmy Wales

[Florence Devouard]

I know it will only be a small satisfaction, but I wanted to mention 
that in the French speaking user guide book I recently co-wrote with 
Guillaume Paumier, you are recognised as a co-founder. There is even a 
paragraph clearly mentionning you.

I invite you to check: http://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikipedia, and in 
particular 
http://fr.wikibooks.org/wiki/Wikipédia/Découvrir_Wikipédia/Explorer_l%27histoire


If you are generous, you may even buy it (book available on Amazon for 
example :-)).
See references here: http://www.pug.fr/titre.asp?Num=1072

As for the other points...
I have had enough opportunities to see that what the public/journalists 
say and believe is frequently highly different from the reality and I 
fear we all have to live with this. For many, Jimmy is still the one 
doing all the work at the Wikimedia Foundation, and sometimes even the 
one approving any article before publishing. LOL. People need icons to 
focus on, and Jimbo is a better icon than most of us. Live with it.

Ant