On 7 August 2015 at 10:52, James Alexander <[email protected]> wrote:
> For the record, since it's an enormous pet peeve of mine ;). We don't need > to get in a huge conversation here, I'm happy to talk off list or in > person, but want to say it for the record. > > Founder.... founder not co-founder :). There is no doubt that Larry and > some of our critics have been successful at getting it in enough reliable > sources that you will see co-founder frequently but I would really prefer > that WE as the foundation not give into it. Larry did a lot of work for WP > but that's what he did it as, work, he was an employee who left as we > didn't have the money to pay him and always expressed how it was Jimmy's > encyclopedia, Jimmy's website. He never really believed in what we were > doing at Wikipedia, He believed in an expert run and scrutinized project. > That project never worked out in nupedia and it never worked out when he > tried to capitalize on his Wikipedia history to start up multiple different > projects that wouldn't have open editing and would have expert "control". > > I don't want to denigrate the work he did, it wasn't nothing, but it > wasn't as co-founder and (in the end) I think we should make sure we > continue to use the proper term when referring to someone who (despite a > large number of <s>misteps</s> times I disagreed) did an amazing job at not > only helping to create and nurture what this project became but ceding the > power as it became necessary. > +1; "co-founder" is both cumbersome and inaccurate. J. -- James D. Forrester Lead Product Manager, Editing Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. [email protected] | @jdforrester
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