Of course. But then you also have to consider that certain decisions by
employees also can discourage people from constructive participation,
especially when they are not thinking that their voice is or will be
heard in any way.
@Brion: Wasn’t talking about any ‘abuse’. As far as I know (as nothing
was provided to suggest otherwise), the current case wasn’t about abuse,
but about non-constructive language to an employee. WMF and WMDE
employees, of course, deserve a safe work environment, but they have to
consider that they have the most technical power in Wikimedia community,
and when you have any kind of power, people will not always make
light-hearted criticism of your actions (talking from of my experience
as an ‘interface administrator’ in Russian Wikipedia, and that is still
far less power than a typical employee has in their profile since anyone
can revert you on a wiki).
Oleg
On 08/08/2018 21:00, Arlo Breault wrote:
On Aug 8, 2018, at 1:43 PM, Saint Johann <[email protected]> wrote:
Code of conduct is important to be enforced, but, in my opinion, there should
be a difference in how it’s enforced. To volunteers that help the movement,
there should be no unacceptable language, as it is a way (and a purpose of
something like code of conduct) to make MediaWiki development spaces more
welcoming to future volunteers.
Is it not possible that one volunteer's language discourages
other volunteers from participating, regardless of who it's
directed at?
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