I am happy to chime in here. WMF served as a fiscal sponsor for the Stanton Foundation and the Belfer Center at Harvard University in this project, which started in 2012 and lasted one year. Stanton, a trusted supporter of ours for many years, had asked us to do so. This was reported to the community here. [1] The Stanton Foundation covered all of the costs associated with it (approximately $50,000). While WMF provided advice and posted the position on the Wikimedia Blog, Belfer made the final hiring decision, which is customary in fiscal sponsorship arrangements. Harvard University is now considering similar positions for other centers.[2] WMF was not asked to fiscally sponsor for this new project at Harvard.
Best,
Lisa Gruwell
*[1] **https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/26/can-you-help-wikipedians-collaborate-w... https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/26/can-you-help-wikipedians-collaborate-with-harvard-university/ * *[2] **http://www.latimes.com/nation/shareitnow/la-sh-harvard-job-wikipedian-in-res... http://www.latimes.com/nation/shareitnow/la-sh-harvard-job-wikipedian-in-residence-20140313,0,5003509.story#axzz2wWQo2cXX*
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 20 March 2014 17:49, Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevreede@wikimedia.org wrote:
Anasuya, Garfield and indeed the entire legal department work for the
Wikimedia Foundation. Your email (and Fae's) seems to imply that they work directly for you, which is of course not the case (because they really only need one person to be their manager :)
Hi Jan-Bart,
Unless you are joking, you have put me in a position of feeling obliged to defend myself for raising basic questions. My email was directed to this list as an open request about where I could find information. For all I knew the information was published but hard for me to find. It was directed at the Wikimedia Community, not employees of the WMF. There was no implication otherwise.
Thanks for replying so quickly with your personal commitment on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation, that there will be official responses to the detailed questions in raised here and in the original blog post. I have no doubt that as further information is published, the community will have more questions, I hope you will continue to fulfil your track record for insisting on reasonable transparency and full accountability.
PS If the board of trustees believes that I should be directing employees, then this is flattering, though please do consider paying me for it. I'm always good value. ;-)
Fae
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