I feel your pain. Everything is funny as long as it happens to somebody else.
From http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Movement_Communications_Man...
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS (Don't they know how to write without shouting?)
"Exceptional English writing is critical for this role, including the ability to write time-sensitive, efficient, compelling, and clearly understandable communications products for a wide range of audiences."
This is clearly discriminatory since it excludes 99,999 % of all American citizens and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, or national origin; national origin is what's at stake here.
"Demonstrated ability to work (speak, read, write at a professional level) effectively in a language other than English (ideally as a native speaker)."
This is clearly discriminatory, since it includes 99,999 % of non-American citizens.
Therefore, as it has been written, these required qualifications discriminate against American citizens and clearly favor a non-American citizen (a.k.a. "bloody foreigner" or "illegal immigrant", please excuse my "bloody language").
These language requirements may indeed be perfectly aligned with everyday practice at anything run by the Wikimedia Foundation, considering the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Article 23 (1) Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
Article 2. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. [...] (Did you notice "language"?)
Writing "about this was useful and interesting."
Sincerely,
Virgilio A. P. Machado (Vapmachado)
At 00:02 16-04-2011, you wrote:
I am tired of seeing these comments on this list. It's the first time one has been directed at me, but I've watched other people be treated the same way. It makes no sense. Questioning, disagreement, and transparency are important; it's what Wikimedia is all about, in fact. I know people sometimes go too far, and occasionally gentle rebukes may be needed, but they happen way too often on this list, with very little provocation -- and they're not gentle.
We can't say we want new editors, old editors to stay, and a good atmosphere onwiki, then have these kinds of exchanges.
I'll reply to the rest of your email some other time, Risker, if that's okay, and I'll try not to labour the point. I do think it's an important issue or I wouldn't be asking about it, but I'm obviously not expressing myself well, so I'll take some time to think about it.
Sarah