Hi there,

Hi Joe! Thanks for following up on this! These are funny - Wikipedia should
be humorously self-aware sometimes. Even though this is from like last
week, these are ever green pieces of info about Wikipedia so I'll go ahead
and get these out.

On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:46 AM, Joe Sutherland <[email protected]>
wrote:

> This isn't really my area of social responsibility so I'll let Michael
> make the final call on this language :)
>
> Joe
>
> On 17 August 2015 at 03:50, Gregory Varnum <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> I chuckled at both - and like them. Might be amusing to point out one
>> specific aspect like the 9 cricket players - "...on Wikipedia (including 9
>> cricket players and 65 politicians)".
>>
>> -greg
>>
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>>
>> On Aug 16, 2015, at 10:32 PM, James Alexander <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Comments in line but I like these, a little self depreciation and humor.
>>
>> James Alexander
>> Community Advocacy
>> Wikimedia Foundation
>> (415) 839-6885 x6716 @jamesofur
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 7:18 PM, Joe Sutherland <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Late on this, but here's some potential social if we want to get
>>> something on this:
>>>
>>> • Did you know there are more than 200 "John Smith"s on Wikipedia?
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smith
>>>
>>
>> move then 200 seems legitimate and defendable. LGTM
>>
>>
>>> • Need to disambiguate disambiguation? We have a page for that.
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disambiguation_(disambiguation)
>>>
>>> lawl; also LGTM. Half of me wishes we could wikilink disambiguation to
>> wiktionary but it's on the page :)
>>
>> Excuse the maths, it's just after 3am here… :)
>>>
>>> Joe
>>>
>>
>> /Standard american grumbles about how mathematics is singular math not
>> maths blah blah ;) /
>>
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