On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 10:10 AM, geni <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 October 2010 00:00, John Vandenberg <[email protected]> wrote: >> The following message was rejected by moderators, but I think it is >> worth noting on this list. >> >> Whether 'we' like it or not, Gregory Kohs is asking probing questions >> and ignoring him is not making him go away; quite the contrary >> actually. >> >> http://www.examiner.com/wiki-edits-in-national/gregory-kohs > > Paying attention to him isn't helping either. We are not short of > people to ask probing questions/
Nobody else asked these questions. Did Philippe Beaudette work for Q2 Consulting, or is Greg Kohs wrong? Was this contract more than USD$5,000? If so, I assume that this contract falls under the Purchasing & Disbursements policy, and needed to be signed by Executive Director or the Deputy Director plus the CFOO. Were other firms considered by whoever signed this? Does WMF have a policy which sets some parameters around when contracts must be competitively sourced? If not, they should. I don't mind if a $5,000 contract isn't competitively sourced, but I would be disturbed if it was a $20,000 contract. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Purchasing_%26_Disbursements_Policy >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Gregory Kohs <[email protected]> >> Date: Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 10:20 AM >> Subject: Re: Help Beat Jimmy! (The appeal, that is....) >> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]> >> >> >> Unfortunately, neither Philippe Beaudette nor Jay Walsh would respond >> to the question about competitive bidding for this important study of >> WMF donors, so the article in Examiner.com ran without their comment. > > Examiner.com is Gregory Kohs self publishing. He gets a share of the > ad revenue on the articles he publishes so of course he is going to > want to post them to this list. Greg wouldn't have a story if someone at WMF had answered the questions here. >> (Note, according to Alexa.com, Examiner receives more Internet reach >> than Business Week, Time Magazine, or CBS News.) > > Or to put it another way a bunch of sites unlikely to game their alexa rank. How would Examiner.com do that? Do they do that? -- John Vandenberg _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
