Andreas, et al
James' now-released email is quite damning in many aspects.
I am very concerned that James was essentially bullied by way of threat
into voting in the affirmative by other members of the BoT. James, would
you care to name those Trustees who did this? Given the recent Harassment
Survey results, it should be clear that there is NO room for harassment on
WMF projects, and those who threatened/bullied you should stand down
immediately.
Lila also has a lot to answer for in not making the BoT aware of what the
Knight Foundation grant was all about beforehand. Lila, any chance you can
explain why?
I can feel a further rift and a vote of no confidence in both the BoT and
WMF management coming on.
Warm regards,
Ruslan Takayev
On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 4:47 PM, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
More on this from James Heilman and others in the
current Signpost issue.
From the editors: Help wanted
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-03/From_t…
In focus: The Knight Foundation grant: a timeline and an email to the board
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-03/In_foc…
Op-ed: So, what’s a knowledge engine anyway?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-03/Op-ed
Special report: Board chair and new trustee speak with the ''Signpost''
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-03/Specia…
Traffic report: Bowled
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-03/Traffi…
News and notes: Harassment survey 2015; Luis Villa to leave WMF; knowledge
engine background
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-03/News_a…
Featured content: This week's featured content
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-03/Featur…
Arbitration report: Catching up on arbitration
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-03/Arbitr…
Single page view
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/Single/2016-02-03
PDF version
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book:Wikipedia_Signpost/2016-02-03
https://www.facebook.com/wikisignpost /
https://twitter.com/wikisignpost
--
Wikipedia Signpost Staff
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost
Andreas
On Mon, Feb 8, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Tim Starling <tstarling(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
On 07/02/16 09:41, Chris Keating wrote:
>
>
> I have some one question for you.
>
> I am having a very hard time wrapping my head around how the grant
> information you posted lead to WMF BoT voting James Heilman of the
board in
>> a vote of no-confidence.
>>
>
> Ruslan - what makes you think the two issues are connected?
>
> I have heard nothing from the WMF that suggests that they are.
>
> A few other people are trying to draw some link between the two, but
the
burden of
proof is on them not on Lila....
Maybe you missed this:
<
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard…
In which James Heilman, by way of explaining why he was removed from
the board, complains of a lack of transparency, links to the
announcement of the Knight Foundation grant, and comments "many
details however are still missing."
-- Tim Starling
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