"It also concerns me that the WMF were *not* aware of Community & affiliate norms in this field - what level of oversight of affiliate governance is occurring that there being significant affiliates with provisions like this not be known?"
This is a question I would really like to be answered. For way more than a decade, the WMF Board maintains a committee precisely to deal with those issues - first ChapCom, now AffCom. How come this disconnection is happening between the Board, and their own committee? P. <nosebagb...@gmail.com> escreveu no dia sexta, 25/06/2021 à(s) 18:19: > Hi Amanda, [Apologies if accidental double-post] > > "Moving forward, we will > articulate and follow the best practices that emerge from these important > discussions and > our corresponding review of the attendant policies, procedures, and > practices." > > That would be a reasonable statement if this were a more marginally > concerning action - something that promoted some concerns, and pointed to > potential greater future issues if not resolved. > > However this indicates the WMF is willing to accept that an error was > made, but not actually vitiate that error. It also concerns me that the WMF > were *not* aware of Community & affiliate norms in this field - what level > of oversight of affiliate governance is occurring that there being > significant affiliates with provisions like this not be known? > > Like functionally the entire participant list of the email thread to date, > I don't think there was any absence of good faith from key actors. But nor > do I think it's "merely" (and it's a very big "merely" indeed) an optics > complaint. There are genuine accidental COI issues that arise, as well as > the instance raising genuine concerns at the decision-making and awareness > of community values that anyone operating in such a significant consulting > role in the most critical field of discussions the movement has had in a > decade. > > Yours, > > Nosebagbear > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/YZ6SE42G5U7CTBJQY3CQWNTATCU47G3F/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org >
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