[WikiEN-l] Positives to publicity

[Emily Monroe]

> Don't you mean "is the Wikimedia Foundation aware of this?"

Yes, that's exactly what I mean!

Emily
On Aug 28, 2009, at 10:19 AM, Carcharoth wrote:

> On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Emily Monroe<bluecaliocean at me.com>  
> wrote:
>>> The reason for this is, when Flagged Revisions got into the press
>>> last week, a number of sources reported that Wikipedia would be
>>> recruiting 20,000 "unpaid expert editors" as staff to check the
>>> articles....
>>
>> Holy cow. Is Jimbo aware of this?
>
> Don't you mean "is the Wikimedia Foundation aware of this?"
>
> Carcharoth
>
> PS. I pointed out in an earlier thread that this mis-reporting would
> lead to people thinking new editors are being sought especially for
> this. It's point 4 in my e-mail of 26 August in the thread titled "A
> sudden thought on the media coverage of flagged revisions". Could
> someone post to the foundation-l list and get some co-ordination going
> if are going to see a large influx of new editors to the WMF's largest
> project asking "how can we help?"
>
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