[Wikimedia-l] Community consultation + Wikimedia Foundation Executive Director selection process

[Ziko van Dijk]

Hello,

I would also prefer to avoid an expression such as "fiasco". Having not
found a candidate in 2013 was unpleasant, unfortunate, undesirable...

Kind regards
Ziko


Am Dienstag, 21. Januar 2014 schrieb Jan-Bart de Vreede :

> Hey Frederico
>
> I will write an update for the meta page in the coming week or so but just
> to give you a general sense of where we are at: we are trying to reach
> potential candidates in a different way, and so far that looks like a good
> strategy. This means more direct contact between the Foundation and
> candidates and more pro-actively reaching out to people who initially
> showed no interest.
>
> There is no scientific way to make the trade-off between
> characteristics/skills of candidates. We might very well choose to ignore
> an important characteristic if all the others fall into place. And it is of
> course easier to make a trade-off on less significant characteristics and
> skills. The decision to look for more candidates rather than make a choice
> in December was not an easy one, but we were not willing to go for a
> candidate who was missing too many of our desired characteristics/skills.
> This is something that the transition team does, and its not something that
> translates well to a table on meta.
>
> I am not sure what you are referring to as “avoid another fiasco”, but as
> far as I am concerned we are simply in a stage of finding new candidates
> and trying to surface the candidate that is up to the challenge and
> opportunity that we as a unique movement have to offer. This was always an
> option, and we would have liked to have found someone in the first round,
> but it wasn’t to be.
>
> Jan-Bart de Vreede
>
>
>
> On 18 Jan 2014, at 11:08, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > I don't know what to think about a final community consultation on a
> specific name. Personally I suspect that I wouldn't be able to say anything
> about it, as with <
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Executive_Director_Transition_Team/Update_9_December
> >.
> >       Speaking of which, I wonder how the problems there were addressed:
> apparently they just expanded the search and reduced the number of people
> participating, but I see no answers to the question: «Have we been looking
> for a unicorn -- somebody who doesn't exist in the real world? [...] too
> insular? [...] unfairly comparing [...]?».
> >       If an answer was found, I'd like to know it. To me that only
> looked like a rhetorical question, because of course I have no idea what
> exact criteria/questions/interview practices are being applied or if unfair
> comparisons were made. To avoid another fiasco, it would probably be useful
> to publish on Meta an anonymised table of candidates, pointing out
> strengths and weaknesses in a single line for each. Then one could say «oh,
> look, "criterion" 175 made 12 otherwise awesome candidates "fail", do we
> really need it?».
> >
> > Nemo
> >
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