On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 3:46 AM, Matthew Flaschen mflaschen@wikimedia.org wrote:
However, both volunteers and staff participants have joined the CoC process.
Matthew is too modest – the discussions has been managed by staff since late 2015, almost all of the contributions to the discussion have been from staff members, the consultants discussed the process only with staff and their alleged report was never shown to other participants, part of the text was dictated directly by WMF Legal staff with others forbidden to discuss it, and Matthew himself has managed most of the recent work on opening and closing the discussions, and promoting his "decision" that a community vote was not necessary.
Without a reference to the community for acceptance, this will be a WMF policy, imposed by the authority of the WMF. If the community are happy with that, all well and good. But let's not pretend that it's anything else.
"Rogol"