Good point, I did not realize that page existed. I'll add it to the
Transparency Gap page Adam W started. It is curious that there were public
reports of the results of the employee survey in 2012 and 2013, but not
since.
Two other web pages relating to this come to mind:
(1) Wikipedian and fellow consultant William Beutler referred to high WMF
staff turnover as the #9 biggest story about Wikipedia in 2015, saying "The
only reason this exodus of talent isn’t higher on this list is because it’s
one of 2015’s least-reported stories":
http://thewikipedian.net/2015/12/22/the-top-10-wikipedia-stories-of-2015/
(2) Former WMF Director of Features Engineering Terry Chay commented in
detail on this, comparing it to other companies, in September 2015:
https://www.quora.com/What-has-caused-so-many-people-to-leave-jobs-at-the-W…
-Pete
[[User:Peteforsyth]]
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Greg Grossmeier <greg(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
<quote name="geni"
date="2016-01-02" time="16:18:42 +0000">
Eh I'd argue at this point we have a fairly
good idea of what went on.
We know from the high employee turnover in some areas and the odd slip
(well that and pretty direct complaints
https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=WMF_Transparency_Gap&diff=…
) that, oh lets call it moral, isn't exactly
rock solid at the WMF. The
long term failure to fill the chief technology officer position probably
doesn't help but there are reasons to suspect there are other issues.
Normally, the way to measure such morale (along with other things) is via
a survey to measure employee engagement [0].
You can see past engagement surveys on metawiki [1].
[0]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employee_engagement
[1]
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Employee_engagement_survey
Greg
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