On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 12:47 PM, Newyorkbrad <newyorkb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't think it's been mentioned on this list that Jimmy Wales (one > of the board members) commented about this matter today on his En-WP > talkpage. Since I assume many people on this list don't follow that > page, I have copied his comment below: > > "Hi everyone. I couldn't possibly agree more that this should have > been announced with a full and clear and transparent and NPOV > explanation. Why didn't that happen? Because James chose to post > about it before we even concluded the meeting and before we had even > begun to discuss what an announcement should say. WMF legal has asked > the board to refrain from further comment until they've reviewed what > can be said - this is analogous in some ways to personnel issues. > Ideally, you would have heard about this a couple of days from now > when a mutual statement by James and the board had been agreed. For > now, please be patient. Accuracy is critically important here, and to > have 9 board members posting their own first impressions would be more > likely to give rise to confusions. -- Jimbo Wales (talk) 09:35, 29 > December 2015 (UTC)" > > I'm not endorsing Jimbo's comment -- or the reverse -- as I frankly > find this whole situation strange and unfortunate. However, it seems > relevant and I thought people in this discussion might want to be > aware of it.. > > I also agree that the information about the two new board members > should be circulated promptly. > > Newyorkbrad/IBM Thanks Brad. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
