I switched the option on to get notification when my emails get to the
list... But that seems to stopped working today?
2010/12/9 Noein <pronoein(a)gmail.com>
You don't receive your own mails. We got two
copies of your previous
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On 09/12/2010 19:39, Huib Laurens wrote:
Am I placed on moderation? all my previous emails
seem to fail?
2010/12/9 Austin Hair <adhair(a)gmail.com>
> 2010/12/9 KIZU Naoko <aphaia(a)gmail.com>om>:
>> I don't support this word choice: on
twitter.com Japanese speaking
>> reader mistook it as "one of English Wikipedia admins" "someone
who
>> writes articles" etc.
>>
>> Not only "smaller" projects but also on the Wikipedia, this factual
>> error is better to correct I think. I heard it placed only on enwiki
>> (in a downtime I haven't confirmed yet), but English is no mother
>> tongue of every reader of the English Wikipedia. Factual error and
>> language barriers may spread false information.
>
> Not to mention cultural barriers. In Wikipedia communities with (to
> me, uncomfortably) structured hierarchies―"Senior Editor," "Editor
> Second Class," "Senior Chief Petty Editor"―this is bound to confuse
> the heck out of people. As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, we
> have enough problems trying to differentiate between Wikileaks and
> Wikimedia; having to revisit Wikimedia vs. Wikipedia is understandably
> frustrating to those of us who've spent years explaining the
> difference.
>
> It's easy to point fingers at an almost exclusively North American
> staff and cry "cultural ignorance," but I'm not―I know that plenty of
> people on staff have years of experience working across cultures, even
> if it's talking to foreigners on IRC.
>
> I wonder, though, who on staff can name the editor ranks on zhwiki?
>
> Austin
>
>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:55 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb(a)gmail.com>
> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Philippe Beaudette
>>> <pbeaudette(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
>>>> FWIW....
>>>>
>>>> The word Wikipedia wasn't supposed to make it to sister sites, and
> that's being fixed right now, so pardon my quick note... I'll write a
bit
> more later about the term as being used on
Wikipedia, but the error in
> pushing it out to sister sites is being corrected right now, so I wanted
to
> acknowledge that...
>>>
>>> Wikipedia does not have an Executive Director, or anything of the
>>> sort. That title suggests that Sue has the final say over content. I
>>> don't think it should be used anywhere.
>>>
>>> But, thanks for at least removing it from the 'smaller' projects.
>>>
>>> --
>>> John Vandenberg
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