On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 6:18 AM, Theo10011
<de10011@gmail.com> wrote:
I see Tory responding to end her engagement on the issue, 2-4 days after she started responding on the talk page. I see a total of 4 edits from her this month, on the issue.
I left a question for Barry mostly, on the talk page. Do you think it was the right decision to have Tory do this report? If you recall, I mentioned why you didn't chose a community member or even an Indian to do the report about shortcomings of the education program for India? maybe in addition to Tory?
I found Tory's report neutral, informative, exhaustive and professional. Since this issue involves people from all spheres of Wikipedia movement, I feel it is wise that she was chosen to do this to given an objective view. We don't need an Indian to analyze this issue.
This was what I tried to allude to earlier- consultants, employees, generally people with paid engagement for a topic, leave after the said term of their engagement. They can not provide the ongoing discussion and engagement a community member can.
Individual community members leave too. But the community exists. Similarly, employees and consultants may leave. But, WMF will be there and I can see that Barry and others are trying their best to address this issue in their official capacity.