Sue,
I, as well as others, are wondering whether you will be responding to the
questions and other concerns which have been raised on this list?
Members of the BoT,
I would like to enquire as to when the Board of Trustees became aware of
this issue for the first time. Could we get some statement from individual
board members, present and past (at the time of the issue) as to when they
became aware of it.
Given that this issue was basically common knowledge at the higher echelons
of the WMF, and it was actively ignored by not only the WMF but also the
wider community, I find it improbable that the Board, or at the very least
individual board members, were in the dark on the issue
Cheers,
Russavia
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 11:23 AM, Sue Gardner <sgardner(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On 21 March 2014 13:23, Erik Moeller
<erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
We will update the wiki page at
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Harvard_Univers…
with more information and details. I encourage
others to participate
in this as a collaborative process.
Thanks Erik.
For everyone: following up on Erik's e-mail, the WMF has done a
postmortem of the Belfer situation, which I've just posted at the link
from Erik above. Suffice to say here that we implemented the Belfer
Wikipedian-in-Residence project with editing as a core activity of the
WIR role, despite internal and external voices strongly advising us
not to. That was a mistake, and we shouldn't have done it.
I want to apologize for it, particularly to Asaf Bartov, Siko
Bouterse, LiAnna Davis, Frank Schulenburg, Pete Forsyth, Lori Phillips
and Liam Wyatt, who tried to guide the project in the right direction
and whose voices didn't get heard. We did advise the Belfer Center and
the Wikipedian-in-Residence about conflict-of-interest policies on
enWP, and so far we haven't seen any evidence to suggest major
problems with Timothy's edits. That said, we didn't structure the
program in a way that would've appropriately mitigated the risk of
problematic edits, and we wish we had. We also wish we'd been better
able to support our partner organizations in understanding and
navigating community policies and best practices.
Thanks,
Sue
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