Refer to the signature Erik used. The rationale that employees when acting as employees somehow are to be wearing a hat of an unpaid volunteer was worn out when superprotect was invented. On 6 Sep 2014 14:22, "Magnus Manske" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
