I'm not sure any of us had the stated intention of helping you. What, exactly, were we expected to be helping you with?
2011/5/26 Virgilio A. P. Machado vam@fct.unl.pt:
Thank you guys. I knew you wouldn't let me down. You outdid yourselves. On this illustrious mailing list where from «you know who» all the way to the neighborhood young kid posts, I made an apparent innocuous statement that included: "if someone, under the false pretenses of helping you can turn things from bad to worse for you, they will. That's the name of the game here," Now, check the archives. Do you find there a kind and/or nice word? NO. Do you find posts by four volunteers who made a point of proving me right? YES. I'm absolutely sure they were doing their best to help, weren't you? Of course you were. It's not nice to make personal attacks, right? Right.
Y'all have a nice day.
Virgilio A. P. Machado (Signing with my true Wikimedia credentials, now go find a reliable source) Executive Editor, http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/pt:Log%C3%ADsticaLogística a Logistics wikibook in Portuguese The One and Only Editor to ever develop and complete http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/pt:Wikip%C3%A9dia:Projetos/Escolares_e_universit%C3%A1rios#Projectos_em_cursoacademic projects on the Brazilian Wikipedia _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
I'm not sure any of us had the stated intention of helping you. What, exactly, were we expected to be helping you with?
I think the message is a head's up that there might be problems on some Wikimedia projects, and that the pollyannish attitude that everything will work out if one is patient and persistent enough which I sometimes display may be pretty much whistling past the graveyard.
From this, and other experiences, I think there may be problems with
maintaining best practices in Wiktionary, Commons, and perhaps the Portuguese Wikipedia. Everything is tied it with an editor's personality though, so it is not possible to evaluate a project based on how they have handled one difficult issue or editor.
Fred
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