[Foundation-l] Wikipedia Executive Director?

[Huib Laurens]

Am I placed on moderation? all my previous emails seem to fail?


2010/12/9 Austin Hair <adhair at gmail.com>

> 2010/12/9 KIZU Naoko <aphaia at 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 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Philippe Beaudette
> >> <pbeaudette at 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.
> >>
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> > KIZU Naoko / 木津尚子
> > member of Wikimedians in Kansai  / 関西ウィキメディアユーザ会
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