I am happy to chime in here. WMF served as a fiscal sponsor for the
Stanton Foundation and the Belfer Center at Harvard University in this
project, which started in 2012 and lasted one year. Stanton, a trusted
supporter of ours for many years, had asked us to do so. This was reported
to the community here. [1] The Stanton Foundation covered all of the costs
associated with it (approximately $50,000). While WMF provided advice and
posted the position on the Wikimedia Blog, Belfer made the final hiring
decision, which is customary in fiscal sponsorship arrangements. Harvard
University is now considering similar positions for other centers.[2] WMF
was not asked to fiscally sponsor for this new project at Harvard.
Best,
Lisa Gruwell
*[1]
**https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/26/can-you-help-wikipedians-collaborate-with-harvard-university/
<https://blog.wikimedia.org/2012/04/26/can-you-help-wikipedians-collaborate-with-harvard-university/>
*
*[2]
**http://www.latimes.com/nation/shareitnow/la-sh-harvard-job-wikipedian-in-residence-20140313,0,5003509.story#axzz2wWQo2cXX
<http://www.latimes.com/nation/shareitnow/la-sh-harvard-job-wikipedian-in-residence-20140313,0,5003509.story#axzz2wWQo2cXX>*
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 20 March 2014 17:49, Jan-Bart de Vreede
<jdevreede(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
Anasuya, Garfield and indeed the entire legal
department work for the
Wikimedia Foundation. Your email (and Fae's) seems to
imply that they work
directly for you, which is of course not the case (because they really only
need one person to be their manager :)
Hi Jan-Bart,
Unless you are joking, you have put me in a position of feeling
obliged to defend myself for raising basic questions. My email was
directed to this list as an open request about where I could find
information. For all I knew the information was published but hard for
me to find. It was directed at the Wikimedia Community, not employees
of the WMF. There was no implication otherwise.
Thanks for replying so quickly with your personal commitment on behalf
of the Wikimedia Foundation, that there will be official responses to
the detailed questions in raised here and in the original blog post. I
have no doubt that as further information is published, the community
will have more questions, I hope you will continue to fulfil your
track record for insisting on reasonable transparency and full
accountability.
PS If the board of trustees believes that I should be directing
employees, then this is flattering, though please do consider paying
me for it. I'm always good value. ;-)
Fae
--
faewik(a)gmail.com
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
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