Agreed that office hours are a nice idea, although
1. For privacy reasons,I don't think that they need to be on video. Sue had them on IRC. In the Wikimedia Cafe several of us use audio only.
2. I'm digesting what Maggie said about the incidents of last July. I'm not sure that the version of events that was communicated to her captures how I would describe the multiple bad decisions that happened, and I'm not inclined to believe that the problems can be summed up as poor communications. I don't mean to put words in Maggie's mouth, and I don't think that she was trying to provide a comprehensive view of her briefing, but I also have concerns regarding what I heard in her summary, and I would encourage Maggie to probe extensively into what happened while she was on leave.
I don't know what all was going on inside of WMF, but I would have wanted an outsider -- that is, not someone inside of WMF -- to review the actions of the staff, similar to how police departments are sometimes reviewed by outside agencies after high profile incidents, and I would want the report from that review to be public. Given my perspective on what happened, I think that at least one WMF staff person probably should have been demoted or fired, and perhaps more than one, up to and including Katherine. However, I don't have enough information to decide what accountability measures should have been taken. I would have more faith in the integrity of WMF if there had been an outside review as I describe here, including public accountability for the actions of individual staff, much as we do on English Wikipedia for administrators and functionaries.
Pine ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
On Fri, Jun 5, 2020 at 6:30 AM Natacha Rault via Wikimedia-l wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
Yes thank you very much. I really liked the sincerity and the straight to the point amswers. It feels great to be listened at and given sincere answers.
Make this call a best practice, it rocked.
Warm regards,
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Le 4 juin 2020 à 22:16, Tito Dutta trulytito@gmail.com a écrit :
True, (because of connectivity issues I was disconnected for some time). Thanks Maggie for answering the questions and clarifying things. All the best and good wishes.
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On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 at 01:17, Aron Manning aronmanning5@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you, Maggie, Elena and Nick for this meeting!
The event was very well organized on the first try, focused and informative. Special thanks to Maggie for tirelessly answering all the questions and giving insight to the wide spectrum of challenges.
It was great to hear that transparency will be an important part of the processes to be developed and that the communities will be involved in working out the details. I think this is going in the right direction to establish trust and cooperation with the communities and a mutually agreeable outcome.
Thank you to all participants and I hope there will be more meetings as this project progresses!
Aron
On Tue, 2 Jun 2020 at 23:24, Maggie Dennis mdennis@wikimedia.org wrote:
We will post notes from the meeting, with the identity of question-askers anonymized, afterward. Questions can be submitted on Telegram [1], on IRC [2] or in the YouTube Chat or by email in advance to
answers@wikimedia.org
(To make sure they are presented during this meeting, please use “Trust & Safety” as the subject line.)
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