Hi,

> AL2 said that we should not build publicly open tools (like a public
> version of the EIR tool) that show the impact of WMF’s grant funding. She
> said that this is because Wikimedia movement members will scrutinize the
> information made available through such tools and may have unfavorable
> questions about it or criticisms towards WMF because of it.


If text in article is true then following policy is relevant to this:
* - *
https://foundation.wikimedia.org/wiki/Resolution:Wikimedia_Foundation_Guiding_Principles


*This proposal has been approved by the Wikimedia Foundation Board of
Trustees <https://wikimediafoundation.org/role/board/>.It may not be
circumvented, eroded, or ignored by Wikimedia Foundation officers or staff
nor local policies of any Wikimedia project
<https://wikimediafoundation.org/our-work/wikimedia-projects/>.*
....
All software code written by the Wikimedia Foundation is licensed under an
applicable free software license. We realize our obligations not just to
share code, but to cultivate a healthy community of contributors around the
source code, and to work with upstream projects and contribute back
improvements to their code.

Br,
-- Kimmo Virtanen, Zache


On Fri, Jul 24, 2026 at 8:11 PM Hannah Clover via Wikimedia-l <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I came across https://wikifired.org/2026/07/20/unethical-conduct today
> and unfortunately it's not the first time I've heard stories of this
> nature. I think it's important that other people are aware of it, too.
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