WikipediaEditor Durin wrote:
On 9/14/07, Florence Devouard Anthere9@yahoo.com wrote:
As it ever occurred to you that Carolyn herself may have preferred so ?
Certainly.
However, for a major entity such as the Wikimedia Foundation to lose it's Chief Operating Officer without making a formal announcement smacks of organizational immaturity. That this was not done, and that this is being *defended* smacks of reasons that the Foundation wants to keep hidden.
Actually no. I think that on the contrary that case was an example of us maturing greatly.
Meanwhile, there is a confidentiality agreement with Carolyn to not further comment. Carolyn has the full right of talking to you, but we, as an organization, can not give details. In the past, there were some questions of how trustworthy the Foundation could be with confidential personal data. The Foundation was blamed because some private data were supposingly revealed and a couple of checkusers preferred to stop being checkusers when we requested them to simply give us proof of their real identity, because they feared that some spills could occur and their private data could become public.
I find quite amusing that now you are trying to blame us for precisely respecting confidentiality :-)
Regardless, I think you'll have to get used to the fact that as the organization is growing and maturing, all new hire and all new resignations will not be announced noisily, nor commented in all private details. You are perfectly free to try to guess who, why, when and what.
Ah, and... in case you wonder, Sue started a quest to look for a new COO this summer.
On related topics, I am myself starting a quest to look for a new treasurer since our current one (Michael) would like to move on. We may not do a BIG announcement about that. Before you start reflecting on bad hidden dark secrets, there is no secret. Michael has been on the board nearly 4 years. He does not have time any more for it. He is very busy with Wikia. He is part time working on west coast whilst his home is on the east coast. He indicated as early as end of 2006 that he would be ready to move out as soon as we found a good replacement. Recently, he urged me to start actively looking for a treasurer, as he feels we now have a staff in place allowing this change. No big deal. Just a person who want to move on :-)
Anthere