Apart from mindless news sources that regurgitated the Christies PR, more recent journalism has in the headlines "triggers controversy", "editors very mad", "some Wikipedians are pissed".
Of these, the presentation by Slate seems even-handed good quality journalism, presenting the facts, the community response and getting direct comments from Wales and the Wikimedia Foundation. It seems unlikely that the Wikimedia Foundation board, the WMF governance team, or the new Chief Executive could say that they handled this well, or gave one of their own Trustees good advice. Many will flag this as an obvious failure by the WMF board of trustees to be seen to exercise good governance over their brand and reputation, certainly, it's not a "success". References for quoted headlines: * https://slate.com/technology/2021/12/jimmy-wales-birth-of-wikipedia-nft-auction.html * https://newsable.asianetnews.com/technology/wikipedia-co-founder-jimmy-wales-announces-auction-of-his-first-edit-as-nft-gcw-r3ujni * https://www.vice.com/en/article/qjbkvm/wikipedia-editors-very-mad-about-jimmy-waless-nft-of-a-wikipedia-edit On Thu, 9 Dec 2021 at 18:38, Yair Rand <yyairr...@gmail.com> wrote: > Criticism of the process: > * No public consultation or even announcement was done before the policy > was finalized. No opportunity to influence the outcome was given. > * The policy was preceded by a human rights impact assessment, > commissioned by the WMF. The report was given to the WMF in July, but has > still not been made public. > * No details are given on the mentioned "Human Rights Steering Committee", > including structure or membership. > * It looks like the policy wasn't even proofread before approval, and is > exceedingly ambiguous in parts. > * The policy is stated to act as a "North Star" guiding the efforts of > other parts of the movement as well, ignoring the WMF's actual position > relative to the other groups and where movement guidance actually comes > from. > > Given the level of disassociation between this process and Wikimedia, it's > hard to tell how to interpret these events. This looks to me like another > example of the WMF simultaneously marginalizing itself from the movement > while also pushing itself as a greater portion of activities. This is a > problem. > > (The merits of the actual text are separate from the process issues, and > this criticism should not be taken as a position on the correctness/value > of such a policy.) > > -- Yair Rand > > בתאריך יום ה׳, 9 בדצמ׳ 2021 ב-10:25 מאת Richard Gaines < > rgai...@wikimedia.org>: > >> Hello, >> >> The Wikimedia Foundation’s Global Advocacy team is excited to announce >> the approval of the Human Rights Policy >> <https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Human_Rights_Policy#Frequently_Asked_Questions> >> by the Board of Trustees on 8 December 2021. Please read our blog post >> <https://diff.wikimedia.org/2021/12/09/what-the-wikimedia-foundations-new-human-rights-policy-means-for-our-movement/> >> about the policy and what it means for the Wikimedia Foundation’s work in >> the coming years on Diff. We invite you to join representatives of the >> Foundation’s Global Advocacy and Human Rights teams here >> <http://meet.google.com/wio-vdkw-phd> for a conversation hour tomorrow, >> 10 December, at 10:00 AM ET (15:00 UTC) to address any immediate concerns, >> questions, or suggestions regarding this policy or how it will be >> implemented. The session will be recorded for later viewing and you may >> submit questions by email to myself (rgai...@wikimedia.org) and Ziski >> Putz (zp...@wikimedia.org) ahead of or following the conversation hour. >> Additional conversation hours on this policy will be made available in the >> coming weeks. >> >> Best regards, >> -- >> *Ricky Gaines *(he/him/his) >> Senior Manager, Advocacy Audiences >> Wikimedia Foundation >> rgai...@wikimedia.org >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines >> at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >> Public archives at >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/37DBZDJ2YUYBN7VARYYYUY62O53LAJ7T/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/GPDWKPOTFL37XW22QF7GEMBE22AL4GFJ/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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