There’s a saying that everyone likes
to eat sausages but nobody likes to know how they are made. It is not good
to have negative publicity like that during the annual donation campaign (irrespective
of the motivations of the journalist and/or the rights/wrongs of the issue
being reported, neither of which I intend to debate here). As a donation-funded
organisation, public perception matters a lot.
Kerry
From:
Jonathan Morgan [mailto:jmorgan@wikimedia.org]
Sent: Saturday, 13 December 2014
6:43 AM
To: Research into Wikimedia
content and communities
Cc: Kerry Raymond
Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l]
commentary on Wikipedia's community behaviour (Aaron gets a quote)
I mostly agree. On one hand, it's always nice to see a detailed
description of how wiki-sausage gets made in a major venue. On the other, this
journalist clearly has a personal axe to grind, and used his bully pulpit to
grind it in public.
- J
On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki@gmail.com>
wrote:
1000th addition to the inconsequential rant genre.
Nemo
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