On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 9:49 PM, Zack Exley zexley@wikimedia.org wrote:
I haven't read this thread, but I'll explain my editing history as Wikitedium:
First of all, I listed my user name as soon as I started at Wikipedia. It's still listed here on my (out of date) staff/contractor page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Zackexley
I did start an article about myself a long time ago. I didn't know there was a policy against it. I wasn't an active editor and knew virtually no policies. I created the article because right wing media personalities were doing hit pieces on me and the Republican party was sending out emails asking people to write letters to the editor about me featuring lots of false facts. So I saw Wikipedia as an open encyclopedia "that anyone can edit" where I could set the record straight. Later I learned it was against policy and FELT REALLY BAD.
As for the other edits on projects I was involved with. My personal opinion is that those kinds of edits are vital to the future of Wikipedia. I want everyone to add everything they're working on to Wikipedia -- and then all their critics to come and add what they know. I'm saddened every time I go looking for something I expect to be in Wikipedia and find nothing -- and am forced to rely on the organization's own site or whatever.
OK -- I think that's all you need from me. Now enjoy yourselves as you continue to grind Wikipedia to a whining halt.
zack, i find this a little offending. most of the persons in this discussion thread did more edits in the last months than you in your lifetime - and this without touching an article about self, or accepting that the colleagues at work do so. its you who gets a 6 digit number of donors money wired to your bank account every year. you can be sure they did not give it because of your edits.
instead of "feeling bad" you might consider doing something about the cause. e.g. you might propose your own article for deletion (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Articles_for_deletion).
what makes this whole story confusing to me are the following pages: * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Organizing_Institute * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judith_freeman * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Carteroni * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Mstemp
the zack exley wikipedia page says you are president of new organizing institute, and you let some one time wikipedia user create an article about your organization again, and let another one time user create a page for your only partner in that organization? after feeling terribly bad? after being chief community officer at WMF responsible for developing the foundations relationship with the editing community?
many thanks, zack, that you are there. otherwise "the whole thing would have fallen apart" (wikimedia), as you say in this interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQfHVGMrHCY
rupert