Hi Sarah, On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 11:59 PM, SarahSV <sarahsv.w...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > You wrote to this list on 12 January that you were investigating with the > Board Governance Committee what happened regarding the appointments process > in this case – whether everyone was fully informed, and so on. > > Can you let us know what you've learned or when you'll publish your > findings? I think the community is keen to know what happened. > > we've been working on it, discussing, and introducing improvements. I guess that replying here quicker, rather than preparing an elaborate document may be more sensible, since you're asking, and we may be perceived as entirely inactive ;) The identified mistakes/shortcomings of the whole process: 1. In the background check performed by the HR and the legal department we have not had a specific PR check as an immanent part. While it sounds like common sense (doh! I know, although many organizations don't actually do that), it seems that each department focused on their own turf mostly- HR confirmed the highest expertise, and the legal department confirmed no legal threats. How are we going to address this in the future? We have already prepared a modification to the process, including a PR subroutine into the larger background check process. 2. The BGC has failed individually as well, for a rather silly reason. An often returning argument has been that we must have known about the case, since it is high in google.com results. The initial screening was conducted by Alice, Frieda, and me. None of us is a native English speaker and our searches included google.de, google.it and google.pl - none of them included the information about the controversy in the top 10 results at the time (btw, the pando article is clearly trending up and is in the top 10 results in google.pl now, while it was not even a couple of weeks ago). How are we going to address this in the future? We are going to assume a global audience of our movement and conduct searches specifically taking that in mind. 3. We have not asked the candidates a very simple question: is there anything in your past that may be perceived as controversial, or require additional explanations? How are we going to address this in the future? We will basically start asking that. best, dj _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
