Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-04-30/Breaking

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How on earth do you "ship" a plan? This article needs serious editing. GeorgeLouis (talk) 17:51, 8 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Congratulations Lila! I look forward to watching the announcement video and seeing what you can bring to the Wikimedia movement for several years to come. You have big shoes to fill! Zell Faze (talk) 20:14, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Welcome, Lila. It is wonderful to have you join the WMF; I wish you every success in your upcoming work. – SJ + 22:57, 1 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]
What SJ said ;) Pundit|utter 07:39, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

What is her username? -- Ssilvers (talk) 14:36, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

@Ssilvers: It is User:LilaTretikov. Zell Faze (talk) 17:01, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Is it? The userpage exists, as does the User talk, but there doesn't seem to be a registered user behind them. Powers ^T 18:38, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It seems to have been put up there by an employee of the WMF, User:JTrias (WMF). Hchc2009 (talk) 18:54, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

It was a copy of a page on the Foundation Wiki as well. If we are blanking the page here, it might be worth doing there. Zell Faze (talk) 19:27, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure about the policy rules on the Foundation Wiki, so couldn't really comment - but I do feel that paid staff creating a user page and then putting up an unreferenced biography of their boss on the Wikipedia doesn't seem quite right to me. (NB: as per WP:NOPR) Hchc2009 (talk) 19:32, 2 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Powers, the account is registered globally (from meta.wikimedia.org). It will become locally registered once Lila starts using it here.--Eloquence * 05:55, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Has she ever edited? What did the Board think of her software and business method patents? EllenCT (talk) 11:47, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I too would actually be somewhat interested in if she has ever edited Wikipedia prior to this. It would be a strange decision if she had not I would think. Zell Faze (talk) 13:35, 3 May 2014 (UTC) Apparently she is not an editor. She says so at about 29:45 into the Wikimedia Metrics May 2014 video. Zell Faze (talk) 14:18, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Some fresh eyes might be good. See my discussion here:

Wikipedia talk:VisualEditor/Archive 6#Newsletter template for user pages? - it is actually a discussion about the VisualEditor (VE), and the need for true section editing before VE can be as revolutionary and fast as the wikitext editor. From reading her bio I doubt Lila Tretikov will be intimidated by the technical aspects of the Wikimedia software and developers. --Timeshifter (talk) 19:33, 3 May 2014 (UTC)[reply]