[Foundation-l] New list admin: Ral315

Sun Aug 17 23:03:35 UTC 2008

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Milos Rancic wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Michael Bimmler <mbimmler at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 2) However, what kind of mail would you have liked? You said that you
>> didn't want a boilerplate email, okay. But how do you write "personal
>> emails" to the ca. 10 applicants who we did not choose? Either you
>> keep it very short and simple ("Hi, this is to inform you that you
>> were considered but that we found Ral315 to be the most qualified
>> candidate after all"), which would be a form of a boilerplate again.
>> Otherwise, you'll have to outline for every candidate the exact
>> reasons why the successful candidate was "better" (read: more
>> qualified) than him and it's a) difficult to formulate this without
>> being impolite and b) it takes a lot of time.  In fact, I know until
>> now absolutely *no* company that will write you a personal letter
>> explaining why you, in particular, were not chosen. I don't know
>> whether in the US, corporations have that large HR departments that
>> they can make this effort, but it doesn't strike me as SOP.
> 
> There are a lot of useful thing to be done for Wikimedia projects,
> community, WMF, free knowledge... If there is a will to do so, it
> should be used. If there is just one place for list admin, it is
> reasonable to keep a list of other possible tasks and to offer one of
> the tasks from the list to candidates which didn't pass.
> 
> Maybe it is time to think about canalizing enthusiasm of Wikimedians
> toward higher involvement.
> 
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Yes!  Absolutely and I agree!  It was in this manner that I started
working with the others on the Wikimedia Blog.  It all started with
"Well do you know of any volunteering I can do?"  I don't remember who
(Raul or Cary?), but someone pointed me to ComProj, and I became active.

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Best,
Jon

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