Steffen, the Wikimedia movement expects board members on Wikimedia organizations to be fulfilling their role as representatives of our movement. If you misquoted please explain that this is the case.
As at a public workshop that cost the movement a significant amount of our donor's money to pay for, there is no reason for secrecy about this, everyone there is accountable for their time spent at that workshop. The quote has not been challenged. It would benefit us all to hear why this was said and to be open to questions about their leadership role, from the person that made this public statement. Personally, if an elected or appointed board level member of a chapter is making public statements like this, I do not want them representing our movement if they are going to hide away in secret when asked about it. You know who they are, please ask them to speak for themselves rather than relying on you and your colleagues to run interference or take this story on tangents. Fae On 7 April 2014 11:42, Steffen Prößdorf <steffen.proessd...@wikimedia.de> wrote: > Hi Folks, > > please do not pick out that single point and overestimate it. > I have not mentioned this to dupe anyone, but only to illustrate the > conflict of alignment or the objective of the chapters. The opposing > opinions are represented by several Wikimedians on both sides, please do > not harp on this single quote. > > Thanks, > Steffen > > > 2014-04-07 12:33 GMT+02:00 Fæ <fae...@gmail.com>: > >> > If that is indeed the case, the comment to "fuck the community" would fit >> > quite well in the divisions that /some/ people are alleging exist. >> > Tomasz >> >> Could whoever is being quoted as saying this please come forward >> publicly and explain what they meant? >> >> If this was anything more than a bad joke, then I would expect someone >> who made views like this, while representing our community of >> volunteers to be asked by their Board to resign their elected or >> appointed position. I urge those who were at the meeting, to >> demonstrate appropriate community leadership and encourage the person >> they know to have expressed this viewpoint to come forward and explain >> themselves in their own words. >> >> Fae -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
