Hi everyone,
Just to share what we do at Wikimedia France.
Employees are allowed to edit Wikimedia Projects from personnal accounts. When they do as Wikimedia France employees, they use their "professional" accounts, that stays they're employed by WMFr.
We do not look at what they do on their personal time with their personal account. The Wikimedia Project policies are there to prevent any bad behavior.
We believe our role is to empower our local community. To help it meet-up, conceive projects and run projects. We want our employees to support local volunteers. If we want them to do that efficiently, we need them to understand what editing Wikimedia projects means.
Moreover, I don't know how it is in other countries, but in France, as an employer, it is really hard to forbid an employee to do a specific activity on their free time.
Best, -- Christophe
On 17 April 2014 10:08, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 April 2014 08:46, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote: ...
On this, you and I seem to be about as far apart as we can be, so we will have to agree to disagree. This is why in threads like the Belfer one I encourage people to stay cool and not let this stuff get to their heads, because this is the kind of moral panicky BS we need to stay the hell clear of.
Staying cool is something we can all agree with.
However when long term senior managers of the Foundation respond to respectfully written whistle-blowing messages such as Russavia's or Tomasz' previous blog post by deriding them as raising "moral panicky [Bull Shit]", you are putting these words in the mouths of your CEO and Board of Trustees. If this is the vulgar way that the Foundation wishes to be publicly represented, I would be very surprised.
This is not the first time that Erik has been sarcastic and rude in an apparent attempt to close down discussion in public responses to whistle-blowers. Perhaps Sue or one of the Trustees would like to say something about their expectation for exemplary and mellow behaviour towards the Wikimedia Community from their senior management team?
Thanks, Fae -- faewik@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae
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