Tom, I don't see where anyone is making excuses. 

As your previous email acknowledges, the review was co-commissioned by Wikimedia UK and the Wikimedia Foundation. We are discussing the review with the Foundation and are in the process of preparing a response. This response needs to be co-ordinated on both sides, discussed, and consensus reached. This doesn't happen immediately. Please do be assured that we are in regular contact with the WMF on this issue, as they are with us.

One other important point I want to address from your email below, too. You say "co-commissioned a report into your own failings". This is inaccurate as there are plenty of things that we do well that the report will also look at.

Stevie

On 6 February 2013 12:09, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:
On 6 February 2013 09:32, Charles Matthews
<charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On 6 February 2013 09:30, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I don't want background. I want you to publish the report now. You don't
>> need any more response than "we're looking at it and are beginning
>> discussions with the community, we'll have a fuller response in a few
>> weeks". You could have written that months ago.
>>
>> Last time you used the "we need to prepare a response" excuse to delay
>> publishing something you ended up publishing it without any response anyway
>> and nothing bad happened, so your good faith is very much in doubt.
>
> Tom, cut it out. In the bigger picture it is going to be much more
> important that WMUK members hold the Board to implementation of the
> report.

It's rather hard to know if it will be important to implement the
report without having read it... I have no idea what the
recommendations are.

When you are forced to co-commission a report into your own failings,
making excuses not to publish it doesn't reflect well on you.

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