Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] Interactive Team putting work on pause

2017-01-25 Thread Anna Stillwell
Pine, > > This email is probably a little harsher than I would like it to sound. I > admit to being frustrated -- not so much about this particular case, but > the general situation of the very mixed levels of WMF staff responsiveness > to requests for information. > Heard. I'll be ready to talk

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] Interactive Team putting work on pause

2017-01-25 Thread Anna Stillwell
Hey Kelly, Nice to hear from you. Glad you've chimed in. I know a lot of people on this team. They have all seemed reasonable to me in addition to being well intentioned. They're competent people. My bet is that they have this handled, but there's a lag in communication time for some reason and t

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] Interactive Team putting work on pause

2017-01-25 Thread Pine W
Thanks for the summary, Chris. Communications problems with WMF are a sore spot for me, as I've suffered through a number of them. Despite years of talking about improving communication, I've seen mixed results to date. I think that the community liaisons have been valuable, but there is still muc

Re: [Wikimedia-l] [discovery] Interactive Team putting work on pause

2017-01-25 Thread Kelly Battles
Anna thank you so much for handling all of this. You do a great job and I am very appreciative of that... > On Jan 25, 2017, at 3:53 PM, Anna Stillwell wrote: > > You make substantive points, Tim. Thank you. > > "An employee should not experience their time off as a period where his > [her/they