Thanks Michael for spelling this out further. Your understanding is correct.
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Michael Snow <wikipedia(a)frontier.com>wrote;wrote:
On 5/28/2014 5:59 AM, Fæ wrote:
On 28/05/2014, Lila Tretikov
<lila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
...
independent individual
able to speak with his own voice and ask his own questions. He does not
take direction from me. He will not work for the WMF or engage with the
WMF
employees.
I do not really understand the point being made about not "engaging"
with WMF employees, any active volunteer on Wikimedia projects should
and must be free to engage with WMF employees. The statement does not
appear to match actions over the last 24 hours, with Wil freely making
public comments about his dissatisfaction after conversations
(emails?) with some WMF employees.
I believe the point is that Wil, in particular, will not interfere with
Wikimedia staff in carrying out their duties, assign them specific tasks,
or otherwise attempt to supervise and direct their work. These functions
properly belong to the employee's supervisor, so it's good for community
members to keep this in mind generally, but especially important for Wil
because otherwise his connection to Lila might create concern or confusion
for the staff (as in the recent GitHub situation, which I believe was
already mentioned). If those guidelines are respected, there should be no
problem about Wil interacting with staff in an ordinary fashion. I'm sure
Wil understands this and will be careful about it, and it's also good that
Lila has said this publicly so that people have something to point to, in
case anything is uncertain about whether Wil has some sort of special
authority.
--Michael Snow
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