Ah, this segues well into the email I was just
drafting: I have to say that
I was surprised to see the contents of what appears to be an internal staff
email being brought up both on Wikipediocracy and here by a non-staff
member. Wil, can you clarify if you were copied on the email, and if not,
how you gained access to it? You've repeatedly emphasized that you are not
affiliated with/do not influence/are completely separate from the WMF, and
even that you and Lila are not even discussing Wikimedia-related matters
with one another at home, so I'm sure you can understand the confusion.
Yours,
Molly (GorillaWarfare)
Of course. While I was talking to you and others on IRC, Lila came
over and asked me to stop. She usually doesn't do that under any
circumstances, because she respects my right to say what I want where
I want. She replied "a WMF employee emailed me that there are safety
concerns, and safety of my employees is a matter that I can't
compromise on." She didn't say who wrote her or what their specific
concerns were, but I'm not about to cause anyone concern over their
safety personally + Lila felt she was responsible for the employee's
well being in this case. I did find it somewhat annoying, since it
certainly wasn't anything that I said there that would cause safety
concerns and no one msg'd me about it directly. I just asked why
badmachine was kicked and about the rather mean manner under which he
was kicked. But I told you guys why I was leaving and left. FWIW, I
don't plan on coming back anytime soon.
This was the first time that Lila told me anything about internal
matters, and it was limited to exactly what I wrote above. Frankly, I
don't want to know about WMF's affairs, and I'm taking action to avoid
knowing anything more for the foreseeable future.
,Wil