For the record, I take any safety issues concerning both staff and volunteers extremely seriously. In the case of a threatening message left on an employee's talk page, GorillaWarfare took immediate action, for which I am very grateful. And I am grateful to see this kind of community at work.
Creating an open, safe and welcoming environment is extremely important to me, and that includes maintaining a friendly space by clearly excluding individuals who harass and threaten others and preventing their presence on our pages. On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Molly White < gorillawarfarewikipe...@gmail.com> wrote: > Wil Sinclair <wllm@...> writes: > > > I've apologized to you here and on Wikipediocracy, but apologies are > > always worth doing directly and for as many to see as possible: I'm > > very sorry for mistaking you for a WMF employee. I take full > > responsibility for my words and actions. I hope you can forgive me. > > No need to apologize. I'm really not horrified at being mistaken for a > staffer, I'm just trying to clear up any confusion. > > > To be clear, a WMF employee did mail Lila with "safety concerns." That > > was obviously not Molly, and, ultimately, I don't think it's important > > who it was. It just made me personally uncomfortable communicating > > with WMF employees in any private setting. I'm hoping that will change > > as we all begin to trust each other more. Even then, I have no plans > > to discuss WMF matters of any sort with WMF employees; that's to > > everyone's benefit IMO. > > Ah, this segues well into the email I was just drafting: I have to say that > I was surprised to see the contents of what appears to be an internal staff > email being brought up both on Wikipediocracy and here by a non-staff > member. Wil, can you clarify if you were copied on the email, and if not, > how you gained access to it? You've repeatedly emphasized that you are not > affiliated with/do not influence/are completely separate from the WMF, and > even that you and Lila are not even discussing Wikimedia-related matters > with one another at home, so I'm sure you can understand the confusion. > > Yours, > Molly (GorillaWarfare) > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>