[Foundation-l] Criticism of employees (was VPAT)

[Christine Moellenberndt]

On 2/17/11 9:23 AM, Fred Bauder wrote:
> Yes, worthwhile, although this list would be only a minor part of such
> monitoring. An experienced Wikipedian needs to monitor the mailing lists,
> Village Pump, requests for arbitration, and the administrative
> noticeboards regularly and prepare a brief summary for staff daily.
> Emphasis would be on issues which have potential to or already affect
> public relations or Foundation resources.
>

Actually, we already do this.  I make a point of visiting AN, AN/I, RfA, 
Village pump, and at least glance at the conversations on 11 mailing 
lists several times throughout my day (or tease out certain threads if I 
can't read everything at once).  I try to hit the equivalents on the 
other projects as well on a regular basis.  That's in addition to 
everything else I do each day.  If I see something that's noteworthy, I 
make sure Philippe, Zack, somebody is aware of what's going on.  
Philippe does similar (at least while he's not vacationing, or maybe he 
still is knowing him!).  I also watched the Arbcom election, and I'm 
watching the Steward one as well.  And when I have the time (which 
hasn't been often lately, unfortunately) I hang out in IRC as well.

So yes, we do know what's going on.  We may not catch everything in a 
community this big, but we do try to keep an idea of what folks are 
talking about not only on things that affect the Foundation, but trends 
in the broader community that maybe we can help with (new software 
patches, maybe a project to see why things are a certain way [like the 
new editor decline], etc.).

-Christine

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Christine Moellenberndt
Community Associate
Wikimedia Foundation

christine at wikimedia.org