I wrote the email below to Lila and the WMF Legal department asking for access to records (and reports) they hold on me, but I'm sad to say that after 3 weeks waiting, I have yet to receive an acknowledgement. As a Wikimania London volunteer I had a moment to speak with Jan-Bart, and some of my Wikimedia Commons uploads were even featured as part of a presentation by WMF Legal on their successes in the past year, so there was plenty of opportunity for us to have the friendly chat I suggested.
Can someone recommend if there is a WMF policy on transparency that volunteers can rely on for questions like mine, or does the law in the USA give me any specific rights of access to records or reports the WMF may keep on me that would mean that WMF Legal would do more than stay silent in response to reasonable requests from its established volunteers?
Thanks, Fae
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fæ faewik@gmail.com Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:49:45 +0100 Subject: Request for disclosure of all WMF records relating to Fae To: Lila Tretikov lila@wikimedia.org Cc: legal legal@wikimedia.org, Jan-Bart de Vreede jdevreede@wikimedia.org
Dear Lila,
The Wikimedia Foundation keeps information such as management summaries about me, which have never been shared with me. [Redacted example material]
Could you please ensure that all records that the WMF has retained about me are copied to me? It would seem fair that I have the opportunity to both understand what the WMF management and board have available to refer to when discussing my activities for Wikimedia, and that I have a chance to both correct any mistakes in this personal data, or to ask that inappropriate material gets permanently removed from WMF databases.
I will be active in both the Wikimania hackerthon and conference in the coming week, should you or an employee wish to informally review this request with me in person, along with my reasons for making the request at this time. ...