Am I placed on moderation? all my previous emails seem to fail?
2010/12/9 Austin Hair <adh...@gmail.com> > 2010/12/9 KIZU Naoko <aph...@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 <jay...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Philippe Beaudette > >> <pbeaude...@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 > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> foundation-l mailing list > >> foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > KIZU Naoko / 木津尚子 > > member of Wikimedians in Kansai / 関西ウィキメディアユーザ会 > http://kansai.wikimedia.jp > > _______________________________________________ > > foundation-l mailing list > > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > -- Regards, Huib "Abigor" Laurens Support Free Knowledge: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l