Erik Moeller wrote: > I know that Wikia/WMF related stuff is pretty exciting, but really, we > have work to do. We're not going to not make a decision that is right > just because it creates fodder for trolling. (And I hope that if this > turns into a troll-fest, the list moderators will take appropriate > action.)
Mailing-list controversy is hardly the main PR problem here; the continuing confusion this creates in the wider world about the extent to which Wikia and the Wikimedia Foundation are entangled is a bigger one. It certainly *looks* suspicious. I know if something like this happened at some other organization I wasn't involved in---say, the Sierra Club was leasing space from a for-profit environmental lobbying firm founded by a Sierra Club board member---I would certainly raise my eyebrows, and I'd be skeptical when they assured me that there really weren't any shenanigans going on. There's a reason organizations that depend on public goodwill try to avoid even the appearance of impropriety in this sort of respect, and auditors usually suggest avoiding those sorts of entanglements. -Mark _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
