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"
On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 8:28 AM, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8 September 2012 13:22, Carcharoth
<carcharothwp(a)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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