I don't think that using my Wikimedia address (like I am now) is meant to create a wall. I just use it because this is my job and I like to keep my email lives separate. The (WMF) notation is used by employees to notate that they are an employee and usually used for more "official" business. The convention is to use a separate account for personal purposes (like normal editing, instead of something official).
If you think this is a major problem, these questions are more appropriate for wikimedia-l as they are not technical and instead policy :)
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 8:09 AM, Petr Bena benapetr@gmail.com wrote:
I think there is no need to make any walls between community and wmf. Main difference between volunteers and wmf employees is that they are paid for they work. I see no reason why someone should highlight that fact by using wmf e-mail or (WMF) in SUL (it appears as "showing off" to me more than anything useful) so it seems quite ok to me that they are using personal e-mails and don't try to be more different from volunteers.
On Sat, Nov 3, 2012 at 1:20 PM, Antoine Musso hashar+wmf@free.fr wrote:
Le 02/11/12 21:36, Quim Gil a écrit :
Hi, is there a policy / recommendation about Wikimedia employees using wikimedia.org addesses when contributing code and participating in community activities as part of their paid work? Or has this topic been discussed in the past?
I use a personal email dedicated to Wikimedia stuff, sounds to me I can talk about anything this way without embarrassing the Wikimedia Foundation for which I am a contractor.
The wikimedia.org I mostly use it for internal stuff and to write to WMF employees and contractors.
-- Antoine "hashar" Musso
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