On 5/28/2014 5:59 AM, Fæ wrote:
On 28/05/2014, Lila Tretikov
<lila(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
...
independent individual
able to speak with his own voice and ask his own questions. He does not
take direction from me. He will not work for the WMF or engage with the WMF
employees.
I do not really understand the point being made about not
"engaging"
with WMF employees, any active volunteer on Wikimedia projects should
and must be free to engage with WMF employees. The statement does not
appear to match actions over the last 24 hours, with Wil freely making
public comments about his dissatisfaction after conversations
(emails?) with some WMF employees.
I believe the point is that Wil, in particular,
will not interfere with
Wikimedia staff in carrying out their duties, assign them specific
tasks, or otherwise attempt to supervise and direct their work. These
functions properly belong to the employee's supervisor, so it's good for
community members to keep this in mind generally, but especially
important for Wil because otherwise his connection to Lila might create
concern or confusion for the staff (as in the recent GitHub situation,
which I believe was already mentioned). If those guidelines are
respected, there should be no problem about Wil interacting with staff
in an ordinary fashion. I'm sure Wil understands this and will be
careful about it, and it's also good that Lila has said this publicly so
that people have something to point to, in case anything is uncertain
about whether Wil has some sort of special authority.
--Michael Snow