https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67477
--- Comment #33 from Fæ <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Bawolff (Brian Wolff) from comment #30) ... > Id be interested in hearing what happened here from the wmf point of view. > There was rumours floating around that the disks were sent incorrectly and > never made it to the wmf, at least the first time around. (is that true?). > In the past this sort of thing has been handled quite easily, so what > happened this time. Executive summary: Disk sent correctly to USA, disk received correctly, disk "lost" by WMF goods-in supplier. The Wellcome USB disk was sent and received correctly as legally verified by Royal Mail (with a perfectly correct address as advised by the WMF, I have a photograph of the package, and with postage paid for by WikiprojectMed). The WMF appears to have a long term issue with its goods-in management contractor, as if a delivery is not through one of their preferred "friendly" U.S. delivery services, they manage to always lose the package. In the U.K. this would be considered racketeering and I'm amazed that the WMF has put up with this behaviour from their supplier for a period of years. I do not know who the Royal Mail use as a supplier for deliveries in California, if the WMF insist that all deliveries must happen through named delivery agents due to a "closed shop" policy from her supplier, I suggest that the she pays for the delivery rather than expecting GLAM institutions to collaborate in activities that may fail to meet UK charity law, and be more expensive than standard international Royal Mail from the UK. A second disk WMF provided was sent within the UK (postage paid by me). Due to the length of time passing with no update or responses, I have gone ahead and started a slow direct upload instead. At the time of writing I'm around 20% complete so as mentioned earlier this is a much more efficient and effective process than hoping the WMF can help out as had I done this in the first place I would have completed the upload at least a calendar month ago. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. You are on the CC list for the bug. _______________________________________________ Wikibugs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibugs-l
