I appear not to be able to edit the Water cooler at the moment (is this an artefact of the transfer?) That should be fixed asap...
Fae as you're soliciting for further comment I'll just note the reason I haven’t commented further on the cooler is that I don't think it's productive at the moment - I'm happy with how the board has dealt with things, I don't think we should assume bad faith from Alastair. I do think we should continue to be aware of his - and anyone else's - positions, but that's hardly an interesting comment. Re: "conflict of loyalties" (which is not about COI) well for what it's worth I agree with Charles Matthew's comments on the cooler. I'm not sure that we should be actively looking for more people to be outraged...
Best Simon
-----Original Message----- From: wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of brian.mcneil@wikinewsie.org Sent: 03 October 2013 16:23 To: UK Wikimedia mailing list; Fæ Cc: Sue Gardner; Jimmy Wales Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Alastair McCapra's conflict of loyalties between CIPR and WMUK
Quoting Fæ faewik@gmail.com:
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- the thread on Wikipediocracy was started on 10 September 2013
Simple question:
When did Wikipediocracy become a member of Wikimedia UK, and able to dictate how the charity operates? A casual inspection suggests it's just a front for malcontents to feed their grievances, or manipulation, into The Signpost - in it's distinctive "Yellow Journalism" style.
I've my grievances with The Signpost, far more than I've any worry that Alastair is incapable of managing (i.e. not voting on) issues where his COI is present.
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