Yeah, Steven as the one who introduces and contextualizes Giraffedata to the reader is more for our amusement as insiders.

I didn't like the term WikiGnome either, as it sounds too close to troll.

BTW, why is Wikipedia down as of right now, 1235pm East coast US time?

On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:01 AM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:

I would argue it seems kind of weird to namedrop Steven here (the story isn’t about him, after all!). But other than that it looks good. Perhaps:

Meet the Ultimate WikiGnome: the story of one of @Wikipedia's most tireless editors https://medium.com/backchannel/meet-the-ultimate-wikignome-10508842caad

Joe

On 5 February 2015 at 3:24:31 am, Fabrice Florin (fflorin@wikimedia.org) wrote:

Hi social media team,

I think this would be a great story for social media, and I thought we had posted it already, but don’t see it on our Wikipedia Twitter account.

Here’s what I tweeted on my personal account, in case it’s helpful:

Meet the Ultimate WikiGnome: the story of one of @Wikipedia's top editors, featuring ex-colleague @StevenWalling  https://medium.com/backchannel/meet-the-ultimate-wikignome-10508842caad

https://twitter.com/fabriceflorin/status/563095938060021763

Feel free to retweet — or develop our own message, as you prefer.

Tip of the hat to Andrew Lih for sharing it with us ...

Cheers,

Fabrice

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Date: February 4, 2015 at 7:02:44 PM PST

From: phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki@gmail.com>

To: Communications Committee <wmfcc-l@lists.wikimedia.org>

Subject: Re: [Wmfcc-l] Medium story about User:Giraffedata

Reply-To: Communications Committee <wmfcc-l@lists.wikimedia.org>

This story has been mentioned lots of places yesterday and today,
including briefly today on the American radio program Marketplace!
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/tech/final-note/one-mans-mission-get-comprised-wikipedia

-- phoebe

On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Andrew Lih <andrew.lih@gmail.com> wrote:

Great story, which includes swearing by Steven Walling, and a detailed
profile of User:Giraffedata

One Man’s Quest to Rid Wikipedia of Exactly One Grammatical Mistake

https://medium.com/backchannel/meet-the-ultimate-wikignome-10508842caad



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