Trillium Corsage wrote:
Just to say hello and introduce myself to the list. I'm a research professional seven years experience hoping to break into the legal field. I'm not 25 or anything like that though. I've done other stuff in my life, and I am middle-aged. How do I come here to the list? I was a Wikipedia (English) contributor for like six years before being blocked. I hope you do not infer guilt into that statement or that I'm somehow a bad person. I am not here to discuss that and would also ask you not to, of course, because it's off-topic for the list. I just say it because I'm introducing myself.
Welcome!
Anyhow, my interest in this Wikimedia Foundation list is really because I hold the WMF responsible for Wikipedia. I reject the notion that Wikipedia is just some separate construct owned by the WMF, like a copy machine or something. And for which it is not responsible. So I come here to be informed by all of you and also perhaps to inform all of you.
Wikipedia pre-dates the Wikimedia Foundation and will very likely outlive the Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation is an important player in the Wikimedia movement, but responsibility is a complex and faceted concept and I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at here.
I'm looking forward to reading you. :-)
MZMcBride