On 3/20/07, stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/20/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
No, it is not "Jimbo's website"; please do not continue to spread this misinformation. And Jimmy is not Chair of the Board, Florence Devouard is.
Well I may be wrong about a couple minor points - it's not as if anyone can keep up on all the various discussions and events. Jimbo is the "BDFL" of Wikipedia and as such WP is indeed "his" (in a certain sense). And he was "Chair of the Board" until recently was he not? (When was Anthere promoted? - Congratulations!) Hence your characterization of "misinformation" appears to be highly exaggerated. Certainly it was not my intent to misinform people.
-Stevertigo
Well... let's put it this way. As far as I can tell, Anthere's becoming Board chair was much more widely promoted within the community than, say, the move on the English Wikipedia to merge a few fundamental content inclusion policies into one (WP:ATT). What one sees happening on the site often depends on what one pays attention to.
And not to continue overstating the obvious, but let's not confuse the issues of who is influential in making English Wikipedia policy and who is influential in the running of Wikipedia's parent organization. Jimbo, as ever, has special status in both arenas, in large part since he played a big role in getting them both up and running in the first place.
-- phoebe