There's a saying that everyone likes to eat sausages but nobody likes to know how they are made. It is not good to have negative publicity like that during the annual donation campaign (irrespective of the motivations of the journalist and/or the rights/wrongs of the issue being reported, neither of which I intend to debate here). As a donation-funded organisation, public perception matters a lot.
Kerry _____ From: Jonathan Morgan [mailto:jmor...@wikimedia.org] Sent: Saturday, 13 December 2014 6:43 AM To: Research into Wikimedia content and communities Cc: Kerry Raymond Subject: Re: [Wiki-research-l] commentary on Wikipedia's community behaviour (Aaron gets a quote) I mostly agree. On one hand, it's always nice to see a detailed description of how wiki-sausage gets made in a major venue. On the other, this journalist clearly has a personal axe to grind, and used his bully pulpit to grind it in public. - J On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemow...@gmail.com> wrote: 1000th addition to the inconsequential rant genre. Nemo _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list Wiki-research-l@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l -- Jonathan T. Morgan Community Research Lead Wikimedia Foundation User:Jmorgan (WMF) <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Jmorgan_(WMF)> jmor...@wikimedia.org
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