Dear Ms. Ayers
Thanks for informing you are also a WMF trustee like "Sam" and you concede that.these controversial banners are "in your face".
Sam's last email had this remark concerning the poster below:-
"PS: The poster below is part of a deranged sockfarm, now blocked from en:wp, which has started spamming WM mailing lists (see the India list) and is squatting the site http://www.wikimedia.xyz/ . Please do not feed, and moderate as needed."
Some direct questions to you as a WMF Trustee:
a} if this is Trustee Sam's personal knowledge that "the poster below is part of a deranged sockfarm", or is it part of some official / transparent record of WMF which we can object to formally ?
b) How Trustee Sam knows that the poster is "squatting the site http://www.wikimedia.xyz/" ? Is this also part of some official WMF record ?
c) Do you deny the following official record of WMF concerning highly offensive remarks, including sexually charged remarks, psychiatric remarks, ways to fudge the accounts etc. ?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/IRC_office_hours/Office_hours_2011-05-26
extracts:
[10:10am] <Thehelpfulone>: indeed, mindspillage what do you do? [10:10am] <sgardner>: (Pinning her up against the wall, as Ironholds likes :-) [10:10am] <mindspillage>: ... [10:10am] <Ironholds>: ... [10:10am] <sgardner>: LOL :-) [10:10am] <Ironholds>: NOT what I meant [10:10am] <StevenW>: She spills her mind, obviously. ;) [10:11am] <Ironholds>: sgardner: you know the WMF covering psychiatric insurance? [10:11am] <Ironholds>: does it just cover YOURS, or are you going to pay for the trauma I've just suffered? :p [10:11am] <sgardner>: Most definitely :-) .. [10:13am] <mindspillage>: And what can we do to help guide the communities into making good choices and ensuring that success? [10:13am] <tommorris>: a few well-placed indef blocks... [10:13am] <StevenW>: Is movement roles sort of like that mindspillage? The strategic planning I mean. [10:13am] <mindspillage>: sgardner: I think the board could use psychiatric benefits... :-P .. [10:15am] <sgardner>: So for example, one of the issues the board grapples with is (and is currently grappling with) is how much emphasis the Wikimedia Foundation should put on growing its operational reserve fund. [10:15am] <StevenW>: Can you translate operational reserve fund to human speak Sue? ;) 10:16am] <Courcelles>: Thinks that would be "rainy day fund" [10:16am] <Nihiltres>: StevenW: the phrase "rainy day" comes to mind [10:16am] <StevenW>: Yes. [10:16am] <Nihiltres>: ah, damnit, Courcelles :P .. [10:18am] <GerardM->: the question is also what the effect of money spend now will be for advancing our goals 10:18am] <Prodego>: Nihiltres: sure, but the budget has gone up far faster than the site has grown .. [10:22am] <tommorris>: Prodego: I'm leaning towards a few million for a group of elite mercenaries to go around punishing vandals. .. [10:25am] <Fluffernutter>: tommorris: and so I was going to say that Ironholds is -- oops :P .. [10:29am] <quanticle>: Hardware is cheap; people are expensive, etc. .. [10:30am] <sgardner>: Just depends which way you want to slice the numbers. [10:30am] <SarekOfVulcan>: Ah, like it better sliced that way, Sue. :-) [10:30am] <sgardner>: :-)
On 12/4/14, phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Ryan Lane rlane32@gmail.com wrote:
phoebe ayers <phoebe.wiki@...> writes:
With Sam, I'd like to add my thanks to Lila, and to the fundraising team which has done an extraordinary job of testing, optimizing, and running our fundraising campaigns. And thanks to all of you, for being concerned about and invested in our projects' public image and financial health and future.
I am not just saying this because I am a trustee -- I've seen every fundraising campaign that the WMF has ever run, and participated in discussions about most of them, and I genuinely do like this year's. Yes, the banners are in your face, and I'm OK with that, given that it's a quick campaign and as always one click makes them go away (forever, I think). Obviously, opinions on the banner aesthetics can and will vary. But discussions on how much money we should raise (which, of course, is not an either/or choice) -- that's a different conversation.
-- Phoebe