On 9/14/07, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
On 9/14/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Perhaps a simple announcement saying, "On mm-dd-yyyy Carolyn Doran ceased to be an employee of the Wikimedia Foundation for personal reasons," would have been enough to address your claims of "organizational immaturity".
If that's what happened, then the WMF absolutely should have issued an announcement saying that.
That's what happened. I argued on our communications mailing list that a basic announcement of this type would be helpful (also for people who were in touch with Carolyn and now needed someone else to follow up with), but the rough consensus was against. IMHO there's a middle ground between "going into detail on every staff issue" and "not informing the community about staff changes": quick updates (perhaps in a smaller "notes" section on the WMF website). We'll see, maybe next time.
There's also something to be said for the good ol' "Assume good faith". ;-)