On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
On 29 July 2012 22:48, Steven Walling steven.walling@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
While I may not be involved in the Portuguese Wikipedia, I do have a masters degree in mathematics, so I can reliably inform you that "majority" is not the same as "all".
The WMF tends to employ smart people, so I assume that whoever wrote that bit of the plan knew that that wasn't the most accurate way of describing the activity. So, my question to you is: why did they describe it that way? Why say "Portuguese Wikipedia’s top contributors" when "a selection of Wikipedians in Brazil" would have been far more accurate?
You're making a mountain out of a mole hill here, Thomas. Perhaps the caveat "some of" should be added to "Portuguese Wikipedia's top contributors", but the current statement is more accurate than the one
you
proposed, given the state of Pt Wikipedia and who came to our meetups.
This is not a mole hill. It is the WMF (I assume intentionally, since you must have known better) misleading people about its activities. You had a particular message you wanted to give, so you described the activity in a way that supported that message even though that was not an accurate description.
Your description is certainly not more accurate that mine, given that mine is 100% accurate...
This is a joke, right? You are irritated that they said "top Portuguese Wikipedia contributors" instead of "some top Portuguese Wikipedia contributors" because why? What motive could the WMF have had for "misleading" you in this way? Did you mistakenly assume that this meant they met with people in Portugal? Did you imagine that they met both Portuguese and Brazilian contributors to the Portuguese Wikipedia on the same trip? Please, enlighten us.