The hazing of trying to be an administrator is also addressed in this series. More troubling is what the Roth article links to, namely: Atlantic, July 2012--" How Wikipedia Is Running Out of Admins" http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/07/3-charts-that-show-how...
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:28 AM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 September 2012 13:22, Carcharoth carcharothwp@googlemail.com wrote:
I noticed that the article makes the (very common) error/assumption that administrators exercise some sort of editorial control, when (in principle), it is editors that exercise editorial control (when the editorial process works, that is). Do those dealing with Wikipedia publicity ever try and correct this misunderstanding, or is it near-impossible to get the distinction across to journalists?
It's near-impossible. The BBC didn't contact anyone for comment, either; the article is strictly ex-culo.
- d.
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