On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
On 29 July 2012 22:48, Steven Walling
<steven.walling(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:39 PM, Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dalton(a)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.