[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

[Huib Laurens]

I switched the option on to get notification when my emails get to the
list... But that seems to stopped working today?


2010/12/9 Noein <pronoein op gmail.com>

> You don't receive your own mails. We got two copies of your previous
> mail. You can check on the pipermail. [1]
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> [1]: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/
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> On 09/12/2010 19:39, Huib Laurens wrote:
> > Am I placed on moderation? all my previous emails seem to fail?
> >
> >
> > 2010/12/9 Austin Hair <adhair op gmail.com>
> >
> >> 2010/12/9 KIZU Naoko <aphaia op gmail.com>:
> >>> I don't support this word choice: on twitter.com Japanese speaking
> >>> reader mistook it as "one of English Wikipedia admins" "someone who
> >>> writes articles" etc.
> >>>
> >>> Not only "smaller" projects but also on the Wikipedia, this factual
> >>> error is better to correct I think. I heard it placed only on enwiki
> >>> (in a downtime I haven't confirmed yet), but English is no mother
> >>> tongue of every reader of the English Wikipedia. Factual error and
> >>> language barriers may spread false information.
> >>
> >> Not to mention cultural barriers.  In Wikipedia communities with (to
> >> me, uncomfortably) structured hierarchies―"Senior Editor," "Editor
> >> Second Class," "Senior Chief Petty Editor"―this is bound to confuse
> >> the heck out of people.  As mentioned elsewhere in this thread, we
> >> have enough problems trying to differentiate between Wikileaks and
> >> Wikimedia; having to revisit Wikimedia vs. Wikipedia is understandably
> >> frustrating to those of us who've spent years explaining the
> >> difference.
> >>
> >> It's easy to point fingers at an almost exclusively North American
> >> staff and cry "cultural ignorance," but I'm not―I know that plenty of
> >> people on staff have years of experience working across cultures, even
> >> if it's talking to foreigners on IRC.
> >>
> >> I wonder, though, who on staff can name the editor ranks on zhwiki?
> >>
> >> Austin
> >>
> >>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:55 AM, John Vandenberg <jayvdb op gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Philippe Beaudette
> >>>> <pbeaudette op wikimedia.org> wrote:
> >>>>> FWIW....
> >>>>>
> >>>>> The word Wikipedia wasn't supposed to make it to sister sites, and
> >> that's being fixed right now, so pardon my quick note... I'll write a
> bit
> >> more later about the term as being used on Wikipedia, but the error in
> >> pushing it out to sister sites is being corrected right now, so I wanted
> to
> >> acknowledge that...
> >>>>
> >>>> Wikipedia does not have an Executive Director, or anything of the
> >>>> sort.  That title suggests that Sue has the final say over content.  I
> >>>> don't think it should be used anywhere.
> >>>>
> >>>> But, thanks for at least removing it from the 'smaller' projects.
> >>>>
> >>>> --
> >>>> John Vandenberg
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> >>> KIZU Naoko / 木津尚子
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