On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 5:44 PM, Pedro Sanchez pdsanchez@gmail.com wrote:
Hmm.. strikes me odd and worries me than Community Associate doesn't seem to differentiate between software "Media-Wiki" (sic), and Foundation/Community issues (Wikimedia).
Opening post was about if Wikimedia (as organization) complies with regulations I don't see what software has to do with it.
There's no need to be mean. I would think that Christine just assumed that he was talking about our product was "MediaWiki", not the content projects. MediaWiki is a piece of software, so it's more likely to be thought of as a "product" than the projects are.
That being said, I do agree with the fact that we should err on the side of responding *on-list* unless there's a very good reason not to. If someone asks a question on the list, it's best to respond on the list so that everyone can see the answer -- sharing wisdom and making sure everyone learns things is good. :-)
Christine probably didn't think the whole list would be interested in it and decided to respond off-list, which is fine... but based on the responses that she received, I'm sure she'll be scared to do that again. =P