Não confundiu Wikipedia com Wikimedia, passou no teste xD Gostei especialmente do "I've been warned that joining the Wikimedia movement is a bit like drinking from a firehose"
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 9:46 PM, Raylton P. Sousa <raylton.so...@gmail.com>wrote: > Ela chegou bem cuidadosa com as palavras... Eu achei. > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Lila Tretikov <l...@wikimedia.org> > Date: 2014-05-01 21:39 GMT-03:00 > Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Thank you! > To: wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org > > > Hi everyone, > > > I want to thank you all for the best wishes you've expressed since the > announcement. I am very excited to be joining you as the new Executive > Director of the Wikimedia Foundation. > > > Let me tell you why I'm joining. > > > Like everyone, I've been a Wikipedia reader for years. I use it to get > background on events in the news, to look up quick facts and satisfy my > curiosity, and to better understand the world around me, every day. My > nine year old son, like many children around him, has grown up with > Wikipedia as his native resource for knowledge. It is incredible. > > > But I also realize that as an educated person living in a rich part of the > world, I have access to a wide range of information resources. That's not > true for everyone. For people who are less economically fortunate, or who > live in parts of the world where access to information is heavily > constrained, Wikipedia is even more critical. It is an utterly unique > resource that opens possibilities for more equitable and open world. > > > That's why I want to work for the Wikimedia Foundation: to help grow the > availability of free, unbiased information for everyone around the world, > in their own language, unimpeded by censorship or other forms of > interference. It's a colossal mission and I am glad and humbled to be > playing a leadership role in helping to achieve it. > > > I’m excited to bring my passion for building products that people love and > growing innovative, high-performing organizations to the Foundation. In > getting oriented I’ve done lots and lots of reading, and had some wonderful > conversations with Board members, Sue, and the C-level team. I met a lot of > staff today at the Metrics Meeting, and I'm hoping to meet them all before > the end of this month. I've been warned that joining the Wikimedia movement > is a bit like drinking from a firehose, and so I'd consider myself, right > now, to be excited, curious, optimistic, and just a tiny little bit > daunted. > > > Thank you again for personally welcoming me to your incredible world. I > have been lucky to have had great opportunities to join with amazing people > on big quests. This is the largest quest and I am thrilled to be on it with > all of you. I want to extend my gratitude to Sue for the incredible work > she has done and all the time she has committed to help bring me on-board. > To all of you for your warm welcome. And my deepest thanks to the Wikimedia > Foundation Board of Trustees for giving me this extraordinary opportunity. > > > Truly yours, > > Lila > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > wikimedi...@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > > > _______________________________________________ > WikimediaBR-l mailing list > WikimediaBR-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediabr-l > >
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