Thanks Erik, for looking into it constructively. Looking forward to the
report and the learnings from the assessment.
Best regards,
Bence
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 8:37 AM, Erik Moeller <erik(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:55 PM, Fæ
<faewik(a)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&dif…
[2]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedian_in_Residence&am…
[3]
https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Harvard_Univers…
--
Erik Möller
VP of Engineering and Product Development, Wikimedia Foundation
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