On 20/04/07, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/19/07, Andrew Gray <shimgray(a)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!
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray(a)dunelm.org.uk