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...
pb _______________________ Philippe Beaudette Head of Reader Relations Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. ofc: +1 415 839 6885 x6643 mobile: +1 918 200 WIKI (9454) pbeaude...@wikimedia.org Imagine a world in which every human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! http://donate.wikimedia.org On Dec 8, 2010, at 5:42 PM, MZMcBride wrote: > Hi. > > The new banners and landing pages with Sue Gardner are using the phrase > "Wikipedia Executive Director"; for example: > http://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?oldid=53090 > > I'm not a big fan of the smaller projects. On more than one occasion I've > called for disbanding some of them. However, Wikimedia is made up of more > than just Wikipedia. It is a spit in the face to editors of non-Wikipedias > to put these banners on the top of any Wikimedia project (I saw this banner > on mediawiki.org). It is the Wikimedia Foundation, not the Wikipedia > Foundation. > > Calling Sue Gardner the "Wikipedia Executive Director" is simply wrong > (factually and morally) and doing so is entirely unacceptable. Wikimedia > ought to hold itself above lying to readers in order to solicit donations. > These banners and landing pages are a violation of what Wikimedians strive > to spread and strive to be and they should be changed immediately. > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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
