[Foundation-l] Re: Official positions

Sat Apr 23 13:52:26 UTC 2005

Yann Forget a écrit:
 > Le Saturday 23 April 2005 14:51, Anthere a écrit :
 >
 >>Yann Forget a écrit:
 >>
 >>>Le Saturday 23 April 2005 14:07, Anthere a écrit :
 >>>
 >>>>>Spokesperson (just for the French Wikipedia?): Yann Forget
 >>>>>
 >>>>>Angela.
 >>>>
 >>>>Yes. These were handled before the board was elected and when we
 >>>>discussed official positions, these were not confirmed. Not being
 >>>>discussed, nor listed in any official place, I considered them not 
valid
 >>>>any more. I am sorry if I misunderstood this.
 >>>>
 >>>>This said, Yann has continued to believe himself the porte parole of
 >>>>Foundation, in spite of discussion and private mention to him by Jimbo
 >>>>than he was no more. He still considers he is and acts as if he is.
 >>>
 >>>That's completely false. Anthere, please stop spreading false
 >>>allegations, lies and rumors.
 >>
 >>http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=283514
 >
 >
 > I never told this journalist that I was the porte-parole of the 
Foundation.
 > That's a false allegation you continue to spread in spite of the fact 
that I
 > already told you so several times.
 >
 > Yann

You have been asked several times to be careful to restore the 
information and to indicate which role you were holding each time you 
talked about something. This in particular true for all topics which are 
related to the Foundation proper.

Typically, no articles about a potential agreement with Google should 
appear in the press, with comments from you, speaking in the name of the 
Foundation. This is not correct.

Each time you let such an article go public, you feed the idea you are 
the porte parole and has more authority to talk about this than anyone else.

It does not make things easier when you send our ***official*** 100 000 
article press release and carefully remove the names of all the contacts 
listed in the press release. You further fuel the idea you are the 
*only* point of contact for any press relation for wikipedia and the 
*only* one who has authority to talk about such matters. Anyone has the 
right to talk about wikipedia. Removing other people names is again 
incorrect.

So, as much as you told me several times you recognised you were not the 
porte parole; I would like to ask you again to clarify in which name you 
talk to any outside person, to remove from you CV the fact you are this 
porte parole and to avoid sending press release without any of the 
contacts mentionned but you only.

Other than this, I have little to say on the quality of your 
participation which is appreciated.