I see. Presenting your statement in that context, as though it was your
comment on that particular content, was not quite appropriate. It made it
sound as though you were saying the Wikimedia Foundation in the US was
actively curating that content, rather than an international community of
volunteers. I'd point that out to them.
And now I see your concern. You're right. That anyone can edit and that
Wikipedia has been based on volunteer efforts from the outset has been
among my major talking points, of course. I made that clear in today's
follow-up media inquiries. And no, I never refer to the WMF as curating
content. On a side note, though: I do point out to people that the
Foundation is hosting the Wikimedia projects, especially when I feel that
inquiries take a turn towards legal questions. I don't interfere there and
from my experience most people refrain from taking their stuff the WMF
legal team. If they don't, they're serious, and then the legal team people
are the right folks to deal with it. If they do, they weren't serious in
the first place.
Best
Michael
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