Thanks Dariusz, nice example declaration for the rest of the board to
think about.
I look forward to reading about the WMF board follow-up, as this is an
easy win to demonstrate improved governance, at a time when we need to
count a few quick wins in the good-will bank.
Fae
On 10 January 2016 at 15:40, Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl> wrote:
On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thanks for talking about it Dariusz.
Could you please make a serious declaration of interests as is being
discussed at [1]. This will help set a ethical model for the rest of
the WMF board to follow without needing a year to think about it. If
you want to check some best practice examples of meaningful and frank
declarations, take a look at WMUK's.[2]
I have no problem with that. You've provided links from WMUK, so until there
is something similar for WMF, I don't think we can expect all Board members
to make declarations (but I also think it would be a good practice to
develop a similar model for WMF board, just observing that I don't know of
one yet; I will ask).
I terms of shares, I am a major shareholder in Druid Multimedia sp. z o. o.
(Polish abbreviation for LLC), which developed the largest online dictionary
in Poland. If there are any discussions related to Wiktionary or other
dictionary services (e.g. within Wikidata) and the dictionary is still
published by the company, I am going to recuse myself. I also own a
significant number of shares in Insta.Ling sp. z o. o., which is a startup
oriented at online flashcard language acquisition (currently with about
50,000 users in Poland and Germany). If there is ever a language acquisition
project discussed, and I'm still in, I'm going to recuse myself.
I've also had a number of academic affiliations, but these can hardly be
considered a potential COI, I think.
I'm glad the conversation is back to more civilized - I have to admit that I
don't quite enjoy being called a clown (while I have a healthy respect and
awe for clowns, and I don't consider myself to be suffering from
coulrophobia).
cheers,
dj