On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Jimmy Wales <jimmywa...@wikia-inc.com> wrote:
> On 2/29/16 7:00 AM, Andreas Kolbe wrote: > > A few days ago, Oliver Keyes said[1] here on this list that, even though > he > > had already quit his job, he was scared to share with people the content > of > > the non-disclosure agreement he had to sign as a WMF staff member. > > > > Do you believe the various non-disclosure agreements and > non-disparagement > > clauses that staff have to sign to work at the WMF should be public? Will > > you encourage staff to share their content, in the interests of > > transparency? > > I don't know, as I haven't seen those. If there is a standard > boilerplate non-disclosure agrement that all staff sign (normal > practice) then I don't see any reason why that shouldn't be made public. > I also don't see much reason *for* it to be made public, if it's just > the usual sort of thing. I don't see that it matters much either way, > to be frank. > Well, there's been enough interest in this over the years to justify it. It would quell speculation. As you are currently in SF, it should be fairly easy to arrange for someone to post the standard, boilerplate non-disclosure agreements/non-disparagement clauses that (1) staff and (2) management have to sign here on this list, or lets us know where we can find them on the WMF website. If universities and commercial companies are able to do that, so should WMF. > In some cases, employees will be bound by specific nondisclosure > agreements with partner organizations that bind the Foundation. I would > not say that publishing the details of those makes sense. Let me give a > purely hypothetical example for the sake of clarity. > > Suppose we negotiate with a vendor to buy some hardware and manage to > get a great discount because the vendor loves Wikipedia. The vendor > might say, hey, look, I can only give this discount to Wikipedia, and it > would hurt my competitive position in the marketplace if the price I'm > giving you were well known. So they'll say, hey, I can give you this > discount, but only under a nondisclosure agreement. > > I wouldn't support publishing that nondisclosure agreement. > Sure. Me neither. Andreas _______________________________________________ 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>
