On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Ray Saintonge <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 09/06/11 3:29 AM, Ziko van Dijk wrote: > > Funny, These lines remind us that a lot of the "intelligence" work is > > nothing more than reading the newspaper. No much real "leaking", one > > might say. > > > > Obviously, those writers love the word "leading" to make their readers > > understand the importance of the news. :-) > > > > Isn't it a problem in the English language that "editor" usually means > > a person who is publishing, like the editor (publisher?) of a > > newspaper? > > > No, in the usual senses they are very different. Essentially the editor > is responsible for the contents, and the publisher is responsible for > the distribution. > > Ray > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > Americans do understand the difference, and that often makes things more confusing for us. The average American would view the WMF as the publisher of Wikipedia since it hosts the content of editors. However, the editors are the publishers by our licensing, and we frequently come up against that in OTRS correspondence with the more media savvy defining the WMF as the publisher and thus responsible for the work. I can imagine it's a concept that is hard to wrap one's head around when they work in American media. Definitions of Jimmy's and the WMF's staff in relation to the product is muddled in the news, at best. -- ~Keegan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Keegan _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
