On 3/11/06, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
Yes, Ant, exactly. If this project is to be *inclusive*, then everybody who joins has to be brought up to speed.
I have a picture of Danny in my head from Wikimania 2005, but I struggle to recall his surname.
Using first names (or handles or nicknames) only is a method to keep the "in crowd" in, and the "out crowd" excluded.
Actually, Danny is also [[User:Danny]], and he makes it clear who he is on his userpage(s). So I don't think using his first name is intended to keep anyone out at all; unless you want to say "Danny Wool, Wikimedia Foundation staff" every time you refer to him I think that's the clearest way to refer to him among Wikimedians.
-Kat [[User:Mindspillage]], like the sig says
-- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mindspillage | (G)AIM:LucidWaking "Once you have tasted flight you will always walk with your eyes cast upward. For there you have been and there you will always be." - Leonardo da Vinci
On 3/11/06, Kat Walsh mindspillage@gmail.com wrote:
Actually, Danny is also [[User:Danny]], and he makes it clear who he is on his userpage(s). So I don't think using his first name is intended to keep anyone out at all; unless you want to say "Danny Wool, Wikimedia Foundation staff" every time you refer to him I think that's the clearest way to refer to him among Wikimedians.
It probably *is* the clearest way to refer to him in general missives to the general masses, such as this email thread, or [[WP:OFFICE]] (since updated to explain who he is - good work :)).
Steve
At 16:30 -0500 11/3/06, Kat Walsh wrote:
On 3/11/06, Gordon Joly gordon.joly@pobox.com wrote:
Yes, Ant, exactly. If this project is to be *inclusive*, then everybody who joins has to be brought up to speed.
I have a picture of Danny in my head from Wikimania 2005, but I struggle to recall his surname.
Using first names (or handles or nicknames) only is a method to keep the "in crowd" in, and the "out crowd" excluded.
Actually, Danny is also [[User:Danny]], and he makes it clear who he is on his userpage(s). So I don't think using his first name is intended to keep anyone out at all; unless you want to say "Danny Wool, Wikimedia Foundation staff" every time you refer to him I think that's the clearest way to refer to him among Wikimedians.
-Kat [[User:Mindspillage]], like the sig says
Point taken. But the match between "Danny at the office" and [[User:Danny]] has to be assumed by a newbie. Here the start of the current entry at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Danny
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Hi
Welcome to my page. I've been a Wikipedian for a while now. I have recently been asked to help coordinate the Wikimedia Foundation Grants Committee. For more information and ideas about how you can help, please see Grants.
About me: I now live in St. Petersburg, Florida, and work fulltime for the Wikimedia Foundation, helping Jimbo out where I can. In the past, I have worked overseas in various media, including print, film, and television. In fact, I still do some odd film work, which I enjoy immensely.
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And by the same token Jimbo, Danny, SJ, Angela, Eloquence, Athere... we all know who they are.
Gordo
Gordon Joly wrote: <snip stuff about Danny>
And by the same token Jimbo, Danny, SJ, Angela, Eloquence, Athere... we all know who they are.
You mean Anthere... but do you know who Elian, mav, notafish, soufron and Brion are?