Re: wiki EN language incident 2021-09

[Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>]

Hi Federico,

Argh, I just saw your mail *after* I've just sent a mail to Jason to
discuss the revert. Here's a copy of that for reference:

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From: Steve McIntyre <93sam@debian.org>
To: Jason Mitchell <xxxxx@xxxx>
Cc: wiki@debian.org
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2021 21:57:55 +0100
Subject: Regarding changes in https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot

Hi Jason!

Apologies, I should have mailed earlier to discuss this. It's been a
busy day and I got distracted elsewhere.

I wrote the vast majority of the content in the SecureBoot page, and
I'm a native speaker of en_GB so that's how I wrote it. I don't think
we have a particular mandate/directive to use one dialect of English
over any other in the (default) English namespace in the wiki, so I'm
personally not very happy to see minor updates pushed that *only* make
changes in wording/spelling for that reason. Hence I've reverted your
change; I hope that's OK with you?

I genuinely don't want to put you off contributing to the Debian wiki
- like many places in Debian we're always short of volunteers doing
useful work!  I'd like to dissuade people from making minor changes
that may just end up being replaced again in future edits. I'd much
rather encourage people to work on more substantive things, at which
point minor wording preferences are less of an issue.

I hope that sounds reasonable - please let me know what you think?

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Steve McIntyre                                        93sam@debian.org
Debian wiki admin - wiki.debian.org                    wiki@debian.org
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...

># <rant>
>While I'd prefer to apply my energies on other tasks, such as continuing to
>explore Debian and my scanner, or more importantly writing Mayor LaToya
>Cantrell of New Orleans expressing the injustice of converting the 300+ year
>Congo Square historical site into a multi-level automobile parking garage and
>new Citi hall office building... this wiki.d.o incident strikes pretty close
>to where I have been applying myself for a couple years now.</rant>

I wasn't expecting to trigger a rant here, sorry. :-(

I hope my mail above explains my position.

...

>wear a mask and get vaccinated,

+1000

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Steve McIntyre                                        93sam@debian.org
Debian wiki admin - wiki.debian.org                    wiki@debian.org