Hello Fae,
as far as I know there is no systematic data collection about volunteers
by the WMF, anyway, there is non that is known by the board at my time,
or ever mentioned on the board. In the first year when I joined the
board I mentioned in a mail that it would be desirable for the
Foundation to have a collection simply because we are often asked about
various topics we don't know about, or I travelled a lot when I was on
the board and often felt the need to contact people to get more first
hand information or view so that I can prepare myself. But that
suggestion was never picked up by the Foundation. So again, there is no
such collection in the end.
There were unsystematic information exchanges at least on the board
level from time to time about individual person, mostly in relation to a
certain situation or an event. For example when you invited me to the UK
board meeting in Derby I wrote a report to the board about that meeting,
and also about the people I met there. Or, when Sue visited your board
she wrote afterward a mail to the board about the meeting, in which she
also mentioned the people who attended the meeting. (And those where the
only two cases where I can remember today that you were mentioned in
mails.) But again, non of these reports are collected and filed in a
systematic way. And I doubt that anyone would still remember what I
wrote in my report for example.
Actually on the board level we scarcely ever talked about individual
person, in most cases it was about cases, situations, events.
Hope this helps a bit on your uneasiness.
Best wishes
Ting
Am 22.08.2014 17:06, schrieb Fæ:
I wrote the email below to Lila and the WMF Legal
department asking
for access to records (and reports) they hold on me, but I'm sad to
say that after 3 weeks waiting, I have yet to receive an
acknowledgement. As a Wikimania London volunteer I had a moment to
speak with Jan-Bart, and some of my Wikimedia Commons uploads were
even featured as part of a presentation by WMF Legal on their
successes in the past year, so there was plenty of opportunity for us
to have the friendly chat I suggested.
Can someone recommend if there is a WMF policy on transparency that
volunteers can rely on for questions like mine, or does the law in the
USA give me any specific rights of access to records or reports the
WMF may keep on me that would mean that WMF Legal would do more than
stay silent in response to reasonable requests from its established
volunteers?
Thanks,
Fae
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 13:49:45 +0100
Subject: Request for disclosure of all WMF records relating to Fae
To: Lila Tretikov <lila(a)wikimedia.org>
Cc: legal <legal(a)wikimedia.org>rg>, Jan-Bart de Vreede
<jdevreede(a)wikimedia.org>
Dear Lila,
The Wikimedia Foundation keeps information such as management
summaries about me, which have never been shared with me.
[Redacted example material]
Could you please ensure that all records that the WMF has retained
about me are copied to me? It would seem fair that I have the
opportunity to both understand what the WMF management and board have
available to refer to when discussing my activities for Wikimedia, and
that I have a chance to both correct any mistakes in this personal
data, or to ask that inappropriate material gets permanently removed
from WMF databases.
I will be active in both the Wikimania hackerthon and conference in
the coming week, should you or an employee wish to informally review
this request with me in person, along with my reasons for making the
request at this time.
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