The Foundation acted to strip chapters of their fundraising authority at the first opportunity, based on what clearly seems to be a pre-determined ideological decision that doesn't take actual evidence into account and centralises movement decision making authority even further in the WMF?
Colour me surprised.
On 21 May 2014 17:10, Stevie Benton stevie.benton@wikimedia.org.uk wrote:
Wikimedia UK regrets to have to announce to the community that the Wikimedia Foundation’s outgoing Executive Director, Sue Gardner, has given us formal notice of her decision under her mandate from the WMF board not to renew our fundraising agreement, thereby excluding us from this year’s fundraiser.
We have written an open letter to Sue about this decision. A copy of our letter to Sue can be found here< https://wikimedia.org.uk/wiki/File:Open_letter_to_Sue_Gardner_regarding_non-...
on the Wikimedia UK wiki.
Thanks and regards,
Stevie
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