That is not wholly accurate. There was a news brief in the 8th of October issue of *The Signpost*[1] which in addition to individual subscriptions is also sent to wikimedia-l.
*WMF to narrow its focus?*: Sue Gardnerhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sue_Gardner,
the executive director of the WMF, has publishedhttp://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Sue_Gardner/Narrowing_focusher planned recommendation for the WMF's October board meeting. Gardner hopes that by "ceas[ing] some activities (or possibly distribut[ing] them to other movement players)", the WMF will be able to "focus more tightly on high-priority activities that are central to its mandate and mission ... [making the WMF] somewhat less over-mandated and thinly stretched, and therefore better able to plan, predict and execute."
Alex [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-08/News_an...
2012/11/1 ENWP Pine deyntestiss@hotmail.com
I appreciate the comments of Jan-Bart and DeltaQuad regarding process and openness, although I feel that we're veering off topic a little from the subject of COIs.
Since we're veering anyway, I would like to make a distinction between providing openness and providing notice. To the best of my ability to see, Sue's deliberations weren't announced here on Wikimedia-l by anyone from WMF. I appreciate Sue having the discussion in the open, but I think the notice to the community that these deliberations were happening was little to none from what I can tell. Notice to Wikimedia-l and Research-l was provided by me (not anyone from WMF) when I found the proposal's pages a mere two days before Sue's stated wrap-up date of October 14. From my point of view, the absence of notice to the community via this list was a communications shortcoming that I feel is worrisome. I informed a staffer of this on his talk page but he didn't acknowledge my comment, which further heightens my concern about communications gaps, so if someone at WMF could tell me to whom I should address my concern about these communications issues, I would appreciate it.
Thanks,
Pine
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