Liam: My apologies for the language you noted, it was not our intent to, even inadvertently, to degrade anyone. We fully appreciate the abilities of our community and I know from my meetings with members of our community how smart and engaged they are in a variety of issues impacting the Wikimedia movement.
I want to clarify that these Fellows are not auditors. They will be working from data as presented by the movement entities. The project has been designed so that the fellows will be using existing data provided by movement entities and the Fellows will only be reaching out to movement entities with clarifying questions. So there should be no material increase in staff/volunteer time to provide information for this project. If this not the case, please let me know. Best regards, Garfield On Thu, Oct 30, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Liam Wyatt <liamwy...@gmail.com> wrote: > Interesting development. Probably a very good idea for transparency and > good use of the movement's money, and consistency of reporting to make > things comparable is a great goal. I especially think that for smaller > chapters there is lots of value in having a dedicated contact person! > > But I find the self-description of the Fellows as "an elite group of global > operatives"[1] a bit degrading to the rest of us... > > I presume it's taken a fair while to recruit the team and scope the project > too (I see one linkedin profile which says they've been working already for > two months[3]). So, I wonder - did the Chapters who have been allocated to > each of these new auditors[2] have any notice that this new process was > being created before it was announced today - so they were able to make any > other time-commitments without being surprised by a new layer of paperwork? > > Also, I presume that the increased amount of staff/volunteer time needed to > comply with new paperwork will be offset by streamlining this with other > WMF-compliance paperwork? > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Oolukoya_(WMF) > [2] > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement-wide_Financial_Report#Who_We_Are > [3] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/seyi-olukoya/59/b09/a7 > > wittylama.com > Peace, love & metadata > > > > -- > wittylama.com > Peace, love & metadata > _______________________________________________ > 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> > -- Garfield Byrd Chief of Finance and Administration Wikimedia Foundation 415.839.6885 ext 6787 415.882.0495 (fax) www.wikimediafoundation.org Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! *https://donate.wikimedia.org <https://donate.wikimedia.org/>* _______________________________________________ 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>
