Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator

2011-09-03 Thread Deryck Chan
Will this new official capacity as WMUK paid staff present any conflict of interest with Richard's current role as en.wp arbitrator? On Sep 1, 2011 7:47 PM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: As I understand it, I'm on a temporary contract until January 15. Details of the role are

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator

2011-09-03 Thread Thomas Dalton
Since this is an administrative role, I don't see a big problem. Having an arb as CEO or volunteer coordinator would be problematic. On Sep 3, 2011 9:25 AM, Deryck Chan deryckc...@gmail.com wrote: Will this new official capacity as WMUK paid staff present any conflict of interest with Richard's

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcoming Richard Symonds as our Office Administrator

2011-09-03 Thread Richard Symonds
As always, anyone who thinks I should recuse on an issue is welcome to ask me to do so, publicly or privately. If the request is made in good faith, I'll happily recuse. In addition, the committee are aware of my new job, and have been for a while now - none have raised any objections,

[Wikimediauk-l] Wikimedians needed to help with traing on Thursday afternoon

2011-09-03 Thread John Byrne
This Thursday there will be the first Wikipedia training session for British Museum volunteers and other staff. The idea was to have ideally 4 Wikimedians on hand, so we can help editing individually answer queries when the session becomes a general drop-in wikilounge type event from c.