Thanks Michael for spelling this out further. Your understanding is correct.
On Wed, May 28, 2014 at 7:55 AM, Michael Snow <wikipe...@frontier.com>wrote: > On 5/28/2014 5:59 AM, Fæ wrote: > >> On 28/05/2014, Lila Tretikov <l...@wikimedia.org> wrote: >> ... >> >>> independent individual >>> able to speak with his own voice and ask his own questions. He does not >>> take direction from me. He will not work for the WMF or engage with the >>> WMF >>> employees. >>> >> I do not really understand the point being made about not "engaging" >> >> with WMF employees, any active volunteer on Wikimedia projects should >> and must be free to engage with WMF employees. The statement does not >> appear to match actions over the last 24 hours, with Wil freely making >> public comments about his dissatisfaction after conversations >> (emails?) with some WMF employees. >> > I believe the point is that Wil, in particular, will not interfere with > Wikimedia staff in carrying out their duties, assign them specific tasks, > or otherwise attempt to supervise and direct their work. These functions > properly belong to the employee's supervisor, so it's good for community > members to keep this in mind generally, but especially important for Wil > because otherwise his connection to Lila might create concern or confusion > for the staff (as in the recent GitHub situation, which I believe was > already mentioned). If those guidelines are respected, there should be no > problem about Wil interacting with staff in an ordinary fashion. I'm sure > Wil understands this and will be careful about it, and it's also good that > Lila has said this publicly so that people have something to point to, in > case anything is uncertain about whether Wil has some sort of special > authority. > > --Michael Snow > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/ > wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > 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, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
