[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

[Philippe Beaudette]

For the record, MZMcBride did let me know that he was sending a "nastygram".  So while I disagree with his language choice, he checked first.  \

pb

On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:50 PM, Newyorkbrad wrote:

> I agree that this factual error should be corrected (as we have told it is
> being corrected), but raising what was perfectly likely to have been an
> innocent error to the level of being morally wrong, without having even
> asked first, seems rhetorically excessive.
> 
> Newyorkbrad
> 
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 8:42 PM, MZMcBride <z at mzmcbride.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi.
>> 
>> The new banners and landing pages with Sue Gardner are using the phrase
>> "Wikipedia Executive Director"; for example:
>> http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?oldid=53090
>> 
>> I'm not a big fan of the smaller projects. On more than one occasion I've
>> called for disbanding some of them. However, Wikimedia is made up of more
>> than just Wikipedia. It is a spit in the face to editors of non-Wikipedias
>> to put these banners on the top of any Wikimedia project (I saw this banner
>> on mediawiki.org). It is the Wikimedia Foundation, not the Wikipedia
>> Foundation.
>> 
>> Calling Sue Gardner the "Wikipedia Executive Director" is simply wrong
>> (factually and morally) and doing so is entirely unacceptable. Wikimedia
>> ought to hold itself above lying to readers in order to solicit donations.
>> These banners and landing pages are a violation of what Wikimedians strive
>> to spread and strive to be and they should be changed immediately.
>> 
>> MZMcBride
>> 
>> 
>> 
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