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I'm surprised to see my Homestuck joke being listed as a "negative comment". If anything, that is the number 1 reason why we should go through with this initiative :p (I'm flattered to be quoted in The Signpost, though!) Aside from that, good reporting. ~Mable (chat) 05:36, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

<blush> I thought you were becing sarcastic. Tony (talk) 05:50, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Well, it was a bit of silliness, but it was part of my response to someone saying they were worried evil aliens would find the disc and use it to find Earth. What the joke boiled down to was that I prefer to give evil aliens information about humans and get destroyed in the process than to never get any kind of legacy out there at all. So it was indeed a positive comment! ~Mable (chat) 06:57, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Hiring and board matters

Also worth noting was this post by Lisa Gruwell, responding to a question whether the hiring for execs for HR, Tech, and Community would wait until after the new ED is selected, or whether those recruiting processes would happen independently of the ED hiring process: "We are moving forward with hiring the CTO, VP of HR, and VP of Community (in that order) during the interim."

Alice Wiegand also published a blog post on the criteria for chapter representatives on the board: http://lyzzy.de/blog/2016/04/criteria/ Andreas JN 466 11:28, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The board should select a shortlist of their candidates for all senior staff positions, post their bios and CVs and perhaps a short video interview, then the entire Wikipedia projects should vote. Time to hand some power back to the unpaid volunteers who provide the raison d'être for those fat salaries and their junkets. Kudpung กุดผึ้ง (talk) 00:39, 28 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Moon

I sincerely hope that aliens find Wikipedia's lunar time-capsule, read a couple of ANI pages, realize how disgusting we are, and then destroy humanity once and for all.--Catlemur (talk) 19:19, 25 April 2016 (UTC)[reply]