[Wikimedia-l] O'Dwyer

Martijn Hoekstra martijnhoekstra at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 17:41:23 UTC 2012


On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 7:29 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemowiki at gmail.com> wrote:
> Andreas Kolbe, 27/06/2012 19:05:
>
>> Yes, you can argue it's his right to act as an individual, it's not his
>> fault that the press describe him as the Wikipedia founder, etc.
>
>
> Really? The article attributed to him is signed "Wikipedia founder", are you
> saying that the newspaper added it?
>
> Nemo
>

If Jimmy does things like these, which he is obviously *allowed* to
do, IMO he should make very clear that he is speaking as an
individual, and not as a representative of the WMF or as a
spokesperson for Wikipedia, and, in case he has the possibility, have
them explicitly state in the final piece that he is speaking as
himself, and is only representing his own opinions, before giving
permission for publication.



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