On 20/04/07, Michael Bimmler mbimmler@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/19/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
- A caveat may apply for a very small fraction of users who do work
directly "for" the Foundation - OTRS correspondents, say - but I wouldn't stake money on it, and those aren't who we're discussing
Uh, there is a nice disclaimer on every email sent out by OTRS, saying (approx.) that "This email was answered by volunteers and does not represent an official communication of the Wikimedia Foundation", so I'd doubt this a bit...
I did say "may" :-) It strikes me that anyone named by the WMF to deal with an external party might concievably be in some way legally their problem - I can't offhand think how, but it does seem plausible. I mean, if I use that access to do nasty things such as releasing private correspondence, one could argue the WMF was partially liable for giving me such access. Nothing to do with their normal on-wiki actions, but a potential liability regarding their ability to go crazy.
Anyway, this isn't really related to the topic in question - I mentioned it as an aside to clarify that these *weren't* the cases we're talking about!