I want + Fae's recent post which is attached below.
> From: fae...@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 20:54:03 +0000 > To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Message from Arnnon Geshuri to the Wikimedia > Community > > On 26 January 2016 at 19:07, Arnnon Geshuri <agesh...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > ... > > Regarding the concerns that have been raised, I have listened closely. > > That said, in my opinion, there are some misconceptions and there are > > mitigating considerations. > > There are black and white facts which make you unsuitable to be a WMF > trustee, and which the board of trustees who appointed you were not > all aware of beforehand because you did not think that your key role > in the antitrust scandal was an issue of ethics worth explaining. Your > email statement does not address these key problems and manages to use > a lot of peacock prose which when struck out amounts to "Wikimedians > should move along now, nothing to see". > > Press coverage like the BBC's this evening which leads with Jimmy > Wales' face, have damaged the WMF's reputation and our projects that > rely on "Wikimedia" remaining a trusted name.[1][2] As Pine has stated > here, "your membership on the Board presents significant and > unnecessary risks", though the fact is that your failure to resign > gracefully is not a risk, but a major incident and an embarrassment. > > Resign your unpaid trusteeship now, as you should have done a > fortnight ago, and save your fellow trustees the indignity of trying > to justify their bad governance in your appointment, rather than > honestly admit failure and reverse their decision. > > Links > 1. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35411208 > 2. > http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/editors-demand-ouster-of-wikimedia-board-member-involved-in-no-poach-deal/ > > P.S. How is that nobody can work out who nominated/invited Geshuri for > the trustee position? There can be little doubt that they knew of his > chequered past when they did so. > > Yours sincerely, > Fae > -- > 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> _______________________________________________ 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>