Hi Fae/Everyone
Just to be clear, although the text below is factually correct it implies that the two of
us talked about your request at Wikimania, which we did not. We talked for a total of
around 60 seconds, most of which was spent on me explaining that I was looking for someon
in a hurry, that fact is not relevant with regards to your request so I am not sure why
you mention it.
The topic below is not within the scope of my governance responsibility and I should not
be involved in this all. So please don’t involve me :)
Thanks,
Jan-Bart
PS: As this is me ‘setting the record straight” the odds are small to zero that I will
respond to a follow up…. see above
On 22 Aug 2014, at 17:06, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I wrote the email below to Lila and the WMF Legal department asking
for access to records (and reports) they hold on me, but I'm sad to
say that after 3 weeks waiting, I have yet to receive an
acknowledgement. As a Wikimania London volunteer I had a moment to
speak with Jan-Bart, and some of my Wikimedia Commons uploads were
even featured as part of a presentation by WMF Legal on their
successes in the past year, so there was plenty of opportunity for us
to have the friendly chat I suggested.
Can someone recommend if there is a WMF policy on transparency that
volunteers can rely on for questions like mine, or does the law in the
USA give me any specific rights of access to records or reports the
WMF may keep on me that would mean that WMF Legal would do more than
stay silent in response to reasonable requests from its established
volunteers?
Thanks,
Fae
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:49:45 +0100
Subject: Request for disclosure of all WMF records relating to Fae
To: Lila Tretikov <lila(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: legal <legal(a)wikimedia.org>rg>, Jan-Bart de Vreede
<jdevreede(a)wikimedia.org>
Dear Lila,
The Wikimedia Foundation keeps information such as management
summaries about me, which have never been shared with me.
[Redacted example material]
Could you please ensure that all records that the WMF has retained
about me are copied to me? It would seem fair that I have the
opportunity to both understand what the WMF management and board have
available to refer to when discussing my activities for Wikimedia, and
that I have a chance to both correct any mistakes in this personal
data, or to ask that inappropriate material gets permanently removed
from WMF databases.
I will be active in both the Wikimania hackerthon and conference in
the coming week, should you or an employee wish to informally review
this request with me in person, along with my reasons for making the
request at this time.
...
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faewik(a)gmail.com
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
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