On Sat, Sep 6, 2014 at 9:50 AM, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 6 September 2014 07:11, Gerard Meijssen <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > Hoi,
> > "We" includes anyone who wants to be involved and does not exclude him or
> > herself by his or her own actions or choices.
> > Thanks,
> >     GerardM
>
> Incorrect.
>
> Erik's email includes phrases like "We're not pushing an aggressive
> schedule on Flow". This clearly means that "we" refers to the
> Wikimedia Foundation and excludes unpaid volunteers who hold no
> responsibility or authority for the deployment schedule.
>

Incorrect.

In such a long text, "we" can obviously refer to both "the Foundation" and
"the community" (both of which Erik is a member of), depending on context.
There would be little point in Erik asking "Do we want discussions to occur
in document mode, or in a structured comment mode?" on a public mailing
list, when he just wants to ask a Foundation-internal question, right?
Pretty obvious, really, unless your goal is to distract from the actual
topic.
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