On 24/05/2014, Wil Sinclair wllm@wllm.com wrote:
Hi Nathan, like I said, I am not Lila, and I am in no way associated with the WMF. Also, Lila is not technically my wife. :) I honestly don't see what my personal relationships have to do with these issues
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If this were true, then Wil could have taken part in discussion on Wikipediocracy with a throw-away anonymous account to educate himself on the culture there. I am sure that Wil and Lila know how to keep an internet account anonymous, or they can ask someone on their personal network who does know.
To parody a little, but not much, "Hello, I'm the partner of the new CEO of the WMF and I would like to ask you about what you think of the WMF projects... Oh, please pretend that I have nothing to do with the CEO of the WMF." No, that just does not add up.
As someone partial, due to the actions of some participants of 'that website' to deride my life as a gay man, my view is that Lila is actively losing good faith, before she has managed to deliver anything for our movement, by not having a word with her partner to stop him playing silly and potentially destructive games using her name as if he were the charitable "First husband" playing ambassador.
Wil has a right to free speech (in the UK we have similar law, it amounts to "meh, you are free to make an arse out yourself"). This ensures his right to be free to irretrievably cock up Lila's reputation in the eyes of the Wikimedia community's most active and productive volunteers.
If Lila is going to be good at managing politics within our movement, now would be an excellent time to start demonstrating it, rather than pretending she does not know about the games Wil is playing within the Wikimedia movement that she is being handsomely paid to support.
Fae