Yaroslav M. Blanter wrote:
If I read the e-mails correctly, 1 and 2 were covered. 1 is Gayle, and 2
is that "it was on her to do list for a long time", so apparently she
decided to perform this on Friday afternoon since it was not pleasant
and had to be done anyway.
I'm not so sure about this, actually. Gayle clearly writes that "they
have been talking internally for a while", which suggests that more
people have been involved in making this decision.
Knowing whether this was just a decision taken between Gayle and
Philippe, or whether more senior WMF staff members have been involved
(Erik? Sue?) would definitely change the way I feel about it, and could
also have other consequences.
Also, the fact that this subject might have been on Gayle's to-do list
for a while doesn't answer the second part of my question — the one
about the changes which prompted such a sudden removal of rights from
those volunteers.
I am not sure though pursuing these questions is very much constructive.
I personally would be more interested in 5) what measures are to be
taken to exclude this in the future, and 6) how can we continue assuming
good faith and be nice to each other.
Seconded–having those questions answer would really help. I'll also try
to follow up to FT2's proposal in a more constructive way — maybe by
starting a page on Meta, I'll see what can be done.
-- Tomasz
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