Could someone with an appropriate level of managerial authority within the WMF, such as an HR manager, confirm that staff accounts, which are supposed to be identified with "(WMF)", are intended to be used for an employee's job or contract role, rather than for personal editing and publishing personal views?
I ask this question after a long term employee has recently caused confusion in a consensus building discussion, but refuses to stick to one account when voting and expressing their personal views, making this not a legitimate use of a staff account as this is outside of their employed role. As the personal and employee accounts would appear to most participants to represent the views of two separate people, this can be judged as a breach of the local policy on sockpuppet accounts, as well as a misuse of a staff account. I'm raising this here as the local policy appears insufficient to convince the WMF employee that they are not using multiple accounts in a legitimate way, consequently a clearer statement from the WMF may help to refine the wording of the sockpuppet policy on the Mediawiki project, and help decide whether it can apply to WMF employees in the same way it already applies to unpaid volunteer contributors. Links 1. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Talk:Code_of_Conduct/Draft#WMF_employees_confusingly_using_personal_and_staff_accounts_in_the_same_consensus_building_discussion 2. https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Sock_puppetry 3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Sock_puppetry#Legitimate_uses Thanks, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l 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>
