Hi Andreas,
Thanks for your email. A few wmf staff have worked on a page on meta to invite anyone to
post their thoughts about transparency at
. Would you be able to post your
idea there? I'd be happy to post it there for you if you have not yet done so / dont
have time.
Based on what you say about being "no nearer to transparency", it would be great
to know what "transparency" means to you and how transparency (or lack of
transparency) affects you or your wikimedia work. There is no silver bullet to fixing
transparency for everyone all the time, so I think its important to get on the same page
first about the problem. I hope you find this page useful.
Thanks so much,
Edward
On Mar 12, 2016, at 6:09 PM, Andreas Kolbe
<jayen466(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On March 1, Jimmy Wales wrote:[1]
things like standard boilerplate language to be signed by
all employees doesn't strike me as something
in and of itself to be kept
private - there is a valid interest in showing that our policies are
fair and humane for employees, responsible in terms of the privacy of
personal information, etc.
Nothing appears to have happened since then – we seem to be no nearer to
transparency about the non-disclosure agreements and non-disparagement
clauses WMF staff have to sign than we were two weeks ago, when discussion
around this topic kicked off in another thread.[2]
This seems to be a recurring (and daunting) pattern. People call for
transparency about a particular issue. Eventually, someone in a leadership
position responds that yes, demands for transparency about this issue are
quite reasonable, and in fact more transparency would be absolutely
desirable.
At this point, people relax, feeling they have been heard. The clamouring
crowd disperses. But in fact, nothing happens, and the same questions arise
again some weeks, months, years down the line.
Maggie, is this something your department could take on? It would be good
to have one identified person at the Foundation who is responsible for
tracking such queries and reporting back to the community, one way or the
other.
Andreas
[1]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2016-March/082852.html
[2]
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/wiki/foundation/685183#685183
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