On 3/20/07, stevertigo <stvrtg(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 3/20/07, Erik Moeller <erik(a)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