[Foundation-l] Letter to the community on Controversial Content

Thu Oct 20 11:03:25 UTC 2011

Am 19.10.2011 23:19, schrieb Philippe Beaudette:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Tobias Oelgarte<
> tobias.oelgarte at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>
>> I ask Sue and Philippe again: WHERE ARE THE PROMISED RESULTS - BY PROJECT?!
>>
>>
> First, there's a bit of a framing difference here.  We did not initially
> promise results by project.  Even now, I've never promised that. What I've
> said is that we would attempt to do so.  But it's not solely in the WMF's
> purview - the election had a team of folks in charge of it who came from the
> community and it's not the WMF's role to dictate to them how to do their
> job.
>
> I (finally) have the full results parsed in such a way as to make it *
> potentially* possible to release them for discussion by project.  However,
> I'm still waiting for the committee to approve that release.  I'll re-ping
> on that, because, frankly, it's been a week or so.  That will be my next
> email. :)
>
> pb
>
Don't get me wrong. But this should have been part of the results in the 
first place. The first calls for such results go back to times before 
the referendum even started. [1] That leaves an very bad impression, and 
so far the WMF did nothing to regain any trust. Instead you started to 
loose even more. [2]

[1] 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Image_filter_referendum/Archive1#Quantification_of_representation_of_the_world-wide_populace
[2] 
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User_talk:WereSpielChequers/filter#Thanks_for_this_proposal.2C_WereSpielCheqrs

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