> On 17 February 2011 08:47, Christine Moellenberndt 
> (and by the way, this is just little me with a cat on her lap
> talking, not WMF employee talking)

Something which might be worth bearing in mind is that (sfaiaa!) everyone 
involved with the projects - staff and volunteer alike - use a consistent 
attribution. In many companies, where staff will have interactions with 
non-staff in a purely online environment, they are required to maintain two 
identities: one 'real' for 'official' work and one 'fake' when they want to 
interact as an individual. I certainly recall having to do this when working on 
msn and I believe that such official-but-sortof-sockpuppet is nowhere near as 
open as what WMF staffers are displaying, which is to all our (ie. us readers) 
benefit.

Alison

ps. Yes, I'm aware there have been specific exceptions to this in the past, but 
that was some years ago now.

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