All: I have added my own timeline to the page set up to debrief the Belfer Center Wikipedian in Residence project: https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Harvard_University_assessment#Pete_Forsyth_notes
I also published a response to the WMF report: http://wikistrategies.net/belfer1/ -Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]] On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 8:23 PM, Sue Gardner <sgard...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On 21 March 2014 13:23, Erik Moeller <e...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > > We will update the wiki page at > > > https://outreach.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedian_in_Residence/Harvard_University_assessment > > with more information and details. I encourage others to participate > > in this as a collaborative process. > > Thanks Erik. > > For everyone: following up on Erik's e-mail, the WMF has done a > postmortem of the Belfer situation, which I've just posted at the link > from Erik above. Suffice to say here that we implemented the Belfer > Wikipedian-in-Residence project with editing as a core activity of the > WIR role, despite internal and external voices strongly advising us > not to. That was a mistake, and we shouldn't have done it. > > I want to apologize for it, particularly to Asaf Bartov, Siko > Bouterse, LiAnna Davis, Frank Schulenburg, Pete Forsyth, Lori Phillips > and Liam Wyatt, who tried to guide the project in the right direction > and whose voices didn't get heard. We did advise the Belfer Center and > the Wikipedian-in-Residence about conflict-of-interest policies on > enWP, and so far we haven't seen any evidence to suggest major > problems with Timothy's edits. That said, we didn't structure the > program in a way that would've appropriately mitigated the risk of > problematic edits, and we wish we had. We also wish we'd been better > able to support our partner organizations in understanding and > navigating community policies and best practices. > > Thanks, > Sue > > _______________________________________________ > 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> > _______________________________________________ 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>
