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.
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