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