Trillium Corsage wrote: >Just to say hello and introduce myself to the list. I'm a research >professional seven years experience hoping to break into the legal field. >I'm not 25 or anything like that though. I've done other stuff in my >life, and I am middle-aged. How do I come here to the list? I was a >Wikipedia (English) contributor for like six years before being blocked. >I hope you do not infer guilt into that statement or that I'm somehow a >bad person. I am not here to discuss that and would also ask you not to, >of course, because it's off-topic for the list. I just say it because I'm >introducing myself.
Welcome! >Anyhow, my interest in this Wikimedia Foundation list is really because I >hold the WMF responsible for Wikipedia. I reject the notion that >Wikipedia is just some separate construct owned by the WMF, like a copy >machine or something. And for which it is not responsible. So I come here >to be informed by all of you and also perhaps to inform all of you. Wikipedia pre-dates the Wikimedia Foundation and will very likely outlive the Wikimedia Foundation. The Wikimedia Foundation is an important player in the Wikimedia movement, but responsibility is a complex and faceted concept and I'm not exactly sure what you're getting at here. I'm looking forward to reading you. :-) MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>