On 6 January 2014 13:43, Todd Allen <toddmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > ... The community expects to place more scrutiny on paid editors, not less.
Sarah has yet to give her side of events and confirm how much of this is true or whether some of it is spoof or spin. Paid editing, of itself, is not a crime, so this is more a question of understanding how best practice and transparency should work for this sort of thing and whether the conflicts of interest for WMF employees or temporary contractors make it inadvisable and whether there are defined circumstances that would forbid it. For example it would be a bizarre hostage to fortune for a full time chief executive or trustee of a Wikimedia Chapter to be a paid editor and/or paid advocate in their "spare time". I have met Sarah in person a couple of times, and we had some good stories and laughs to swap - having drinks and relaxing over dinner is a much better way of getting to know someone than by reading about them second hand. If Sarah is making paid editing work, then as a leading experienced Wikimedian in Residence and GLAM person, she is probably in a position to become a case study of what best practice ought to be. Her GLAM work has been first class and leading edge, so for what it's worth, I will always give her the benefit of the doubt and bags of good faith; she is a lovely person, so I would ask others to do the same and defer judgement and wait for all the facts to be on the table and put in context. Odder has raised some reasonable questions and I look forward to Sarah giving a considered reply. Considering some of the tangential and points scoring emails funking up this thread, as well as the normal unpleasantness elsewhere, I suggest she makes any reply under a new thread if she thinks this list is suitable, or on the English Wikipedia which is where any evidence really is. Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>