Thanks Dariusz, nice example declaration for the rest of the board to think about.
I look forward to reading about the WMF board follow-up, as this is an easy win to demonstrate improved governance, at a time when we need to count a few quick wins in the good-will bank. Fae On 10 January 2016 at 15:40, Dariusz Jemielniak <dar...@alk.edu.pl> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:22 AM, Fæ <fae...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Thanks for talking about it Dariusz. >> >> Could you please make a serious declaration of interests as is being >> discussed at [1]. This will help set a ethical model for the rest of >> the WMF board to follow without needing a year to think about it. If >> you want to check some best practice examples of meaningful and frank >> declarations, take a look at WMUK's.[2] > > > I have no problem with that. You've provided links from WMUK, so until there > is something similar for WMF, I don't think we can expect all Board members > to make declarations (but I also think it would be a good practice to > develop a similar model for WMF board, just observing that I don't know of > one yet; I will ask). > > I terms of shares, I am a major shareholder in Druid Multimedia sp. z o. o. > (Polish abbreviation for LLC), which developed the largest online dictionary > in Poland. If there are any discussions related to Wiktionary or other > dictionary services (e.g. within Wikidata) and the dictionary is still > published by the company, I am going to recuse myself. I also own a > significant number of shares in Insta.Ling sp. z o. o., which is a startup > oriented at online flashcard language acquisition (currently with about > 50,000 users in Poland and Germany). If there is ever a language acquisition > project discussed, and I'm still in, I'm going to recuse myself. > > I've also had a number of academic affiliations, but these can hardly be > considered a potential COI, I think. > > I'm glad the conversation is back to more civilized - I have to admit that I > don't quite enjoy being called a clown (while I have a healthy respect and > awe for clowns, and I don't consider myself to be suffering from > coulrophobia). > > cheers, > > dj -- fae...@gmail.com https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ 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>
