News flash! I received a reply from Adam Cuerden, the audio editor charged with the release of the WikiVoices # 45 session:
"I've asked around, and several people involved have made it clear that it should only be released by official means, not privately. I'm afraid that's the end of this discussion, as I cannot go against the wishes of the other people involved in it to please you. I'm afraid that ends discussion on this matter, as far as I'm concerned. I see no moral way to go about what you're asking me to do." I hope that some Foundation staff or board member will comment on what has happened here. Wikimedia Foundation server resources were used to coordinate a discussion of issues by no less than eight candidates for the Board of Trustees. All of the invited candidates and at least one of the co-hosts (Durova) spent two hours of their time in good faith to produce this lively Q&A session. Now, it is being withheld from our community and the public at large, with no explanation. People laughed when I suggested that something fishy was going on when the audio wasn't posted within the first week of taping. People also chuckled when I noted that the other co-host (Promethean) happened to have erased my Board candidacy statement only a number of days prior to the WikiVoices taping. What do people THINK of this? I expect several replies that will poo-pooh and explain away this cover-up with a few "they obviously did their best, but unfortunately they just didn't get the job done" excuses. I will ignore those, because they ignore reality. But I look forward to the comments of any who are still able to think for themselves and might have some actual explanations for what is going on here. I suspect that at least one WMF staff or board member is blocking the release of this audio, and the cover-up mandate is in place. Call me a conspiracy theorist all you want. I've shown evidence that the suppression of the tape is a deliberate decision on the part of a group of unnamed individuals. What's your evidence otherwise? Greg On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 6:30 PM, Gregory Kohs <thekoh...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have asked the User who is supposedly in possession of the raw audio file > to explain what's happening, and he has bluntly replied that he is no longer > interested in spending the "two days" that it would take to edit the > two-hour audio feed. > > I then requested that he simply deliver the unedited electronic audio file > to me, and I will be happy to post it. That was 20 hours ago. Still no > reply. > > The previous public replies to my initial post here (that I am "ill > informed that you are not aware how things are organised", or that my > "complains (sic) about it are unreasonable and mistargeted", or that it's > hard to "see what you expect the Foundation or the > Election Committee to do about" it) are way off the mark. My point really > was that if the Wikimedia Foundation truly cared about an open, transparent, > and responsibly-handled election, the Foundation STAFF (the folks paid money > to run the organization effectively) would have been hosting this sort of > dialogue/debate themselves, rather than breathing a sigh of relief that the > junior-grade volunteers would take yet another responsibility off of their > plate. Clearly, there are more important things on their agenda, such > as the monthly rent checks to Wikia, Inc. that need to be written! The WMF > staff can't be bothered with things like Board-level election > communications. > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
