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...
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On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:42 PM, MZMcBride wrote:
Hi.
The new banners and landing pages with Sue Gardner are using the phrase "Wikipedia Executive Director"; for example: http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?oldid=53090
I'm not a big fan of the smaller projects. On more than one occasion I've called for disbanding some of them. However, Wikimedia is made up of more than just Wikipedia. It is a spit in the face to editors of non-Wikipedias to put these banners on the top of any Wikimedia project (I saw this banner on mediawiki.org). It is the Wikimedia Foundation, not the Wikipedia Foundation.
Calling Sue Gardner the "Wikipedia Executive Director" is simply wrong (factually and morally) and doing so is entirely unacceptable. Wikimedia ought to hold itself above lying to readers in order to solicit donations. These banners and landing pages are a violation of what Wikimedians strive to spread and strive to be and they should be changed immediately.
MZMcBride
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