[Wikimedia-l] WMF HR and leadership questions

[Philippe Beaudette]

It would.  And Fellows, etc.

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Philippe Beaudette
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Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.

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On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:31 PM, Matthew Roth <mroth at wikimedia.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 9:53 PM, Tim Starling <tstarling at wikimedia.org
> >wrote:
>
> > On 28/12/12 12:14, Gayle Karen Young wrote:
> > >> *2d. Does WMF have "a talent retention problem" and if so what is
> being
> > >> done about this?
> > >>
> > >
> > > The short answer is "No."
> > >
> > > The simplicity of this question is a bit misleading. I don't think we
> > have
> > > a talent retention problem because we have amazing people working for
> us
> > > who have and will continue to. The reasons that people move on are
> > > sometimes but not always problematic. I think it's GOOD for people to
> > leave
> > > the organization at various points - for their own career development,
> > > because the things that were more endemic to a start-up environment
> are a
> > > little less prevalent at our stage of organizational growth, etc.
> >
> > A count of office.wikimedia.org account deactivations suggests that
> > about 59 people left the WMF in 2012, for whatever reason. To me, that
> > seems like a lot of people. Maybe it's occasionally good for people to
> > leave, but so many?
> >
>
> Does that include interns? I know my interns get access to Office Wiki, so
> it might skew the numbers higher. I believe LCA has had at least 8-10 (?)
> interns cycle through in 2012. I've had a couple.
>
> -Matthew
>
>
> >
> > -- Tim Starling
> >
> >
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