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Rory Cellan-Jones (17 September 2021).
"Tech Tent - what next for Wikipedia?".
BBC. Retrieved 18 September 2021. Maryana Iskander, according to her Wikipedia entry, is an Egyptian-born American social entrepreneur and lawyer who currently leads the Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator in South Africa.
Actually, by itself, no. But, perhaps the books have content that can surface some notable facts and use the books as a reference rather than an uninteresting fact.
JRandomF (
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16:23, 14 September 2021 (UTC)reply
I saw an email thread ("[Wikimedia-l] Welcoming the new Wikimedia Foundation CEO") where she expressed interest in creating an account and editing, and some community members advised her to not share her account, at least initially, so she could get a true "newbie" editing experience. Someone else will need to track down the thread to share. ---
Another Believer(
Talk)18:23, 22 September 2021 (UTC)reply
re: "re-using. It's not really that. It's just that all WMF employees, of all levels, get a "(WMF)" account created for them automatically when they are onboarded. The "(WMF)" part is blocked if you self-register a user and only WMF-ITS can create those so that you can reasonably be sure those are "official" accounts. BUT, all employees can also and are even encouraged to have a separate volunteer account that they create themselves like everybody else. The original idea was that the (WMF) accounts are (only) used when you make an "office action" edit. So an edit specifically as part of your work. It's up to each individual whether they use one or the other and sometimes it might be hard where you would draw the line between "directly work related" and volunteering after hours, especially in such a high profile case.
Mutante (
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22:11, 2 February 2022 (UTC)reply
The problem is that the account Maryana (WMF) previously belonged to a different person. Yes, sure, there was a gap of several years when it did not belong to anyone, but it still may cause a lot of confusion since the old messages remain signed.--
Ymblanter (
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22:14, 2 February 2022 (UTC)reply