All:
I have added my own timeline to the page set up to debrief the Belfer
Center Wikipedian in Residence project:
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 21 March 2014 13:23, Erik Moeller
<erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
We will update the wiki page at
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Harvard_Univers…
with more information and details. I encourage
others to participate
in this as a collaborative process.
Thanks Erik.
For everyone: following up on Erik's e-mail, the WMF has done a
postmortem of the Belfer situation, which I've just posted at the link
from Erik above. Suffice to say here that we implemented the Belfer
Wikipedian-in-Residence project with editing as a core activity of the
WIR role, despite internal and external voices strongly advising us
not to. That was a mistake, and we shouldn't have done it.
I want to apologize for it, particularly to Asaf Bartov, Siko
Bouterse, LiAnna Davis, Frank Schulenburg, Pete Forsyth, Lori Phillips
and Liam Wyatt, who tried to guide the project in the right direction
and whose voices didn't get heard. We did advise the Belfer Center and
the Wikipedian-in-Residence about conflict-of-interest policies on
enWP, and so far we haven't seen any evidence to suggest major
problems with Timothy's edits. That said, we didn't structure the
program in a way that would've appropriately mitigated the risk of
problematic edits, and we wish we had. We also wish we'd been better
able to support our partner organizations in understanding and
navigating community policies and best practices.
Thanks,
Sue
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