On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Eric, in this thread you are officially speaking for the WMF. Does the WMF really want to say it is "ethical" to have different accountability rules for funding organizations that want to use the Wikimedia brand because there are different rules for the rich?
No, that's not the point. The point is that a grant given to us goes through a different process than, say, a grant from us to WMFR, and that necessarily leads to different practices -- the grant-giver has their own expectations on how to do accounting, reporting, etc.
The project was publicly announced through a blog post, the responsibilities for the Wikipedian in Residence were publicly posted, and the user in question publicly disclosed their affiliation (that disclosure didn't, but should have, included more details including the WMF sponsorship). The edits are, as any, a matter of public record and easily scrutinized, criticized, and corrected or reverted if needed, to fully expose Harvard's evil agenda and the secret workings of the reptilian order which most WMF senior staff are part of.
Timothy noted [1] hat there's a report which he compiled as part of his residency. I've reached out to Lisa, and we're looking into publishing the report at the earliest opportunity. Hopefully this will make it possible to collectively draw some more conclusions about the project. I've added [2] the residency to the public directory and also created a holding space for capturing observations and conclusions. [3] Contributions welcome, and I hope we can avoid personalizing things as I'm sure Timothy worked in good faith and did his best to meet the expectations of the project. :)
Cheers, Erik
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:Timothysandole&diff... [2] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedian_in_Residence&... [3] https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Harvard_Universi...