Dariusz Jemielniak darekj@alk.edu.pl wrote:
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The identified mistakes/shortcomings of the whole process:
- In the background check performed by the HR and the legal department we
have not had a specific PR check as an immanent part. While it sounds like common sense (doh! I know, although many organizations don't actually do that), it seems that each department focused on their own turf mostly- HR confirmed the highest expertise, and the legal department confirmed no legal threats.
How are we going to address this in the future? We have already prepared a modification to the process, including a PR subroutine into the larger background check process.
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This makes it sound like a communications mishap, i. e. in the hypothetical case that the board would not have had to publish Arnnon's appointment, everything would be okay.
The question that has been raised here in the last few weeks is different: Is someone who apparently in the past had a major and costly difficulty to choose between right and wrong suitable for serving on the Board of the Wikimedia Foundation? It was not addressed to HR or Legal, but to the Board itself.
Tim