MZMcBride, that is an *excellent* find -- I had forgotten that it was articulated as a formal policy. I have now updated my blog post on the topic with a link to that email: http://wikistrategies.net/grant-transparency/
Perhaps Lisa can tell us whether that policy was ever rescinded? -Pete [[User:Peteforsyth]] On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 5:24 PM, MZMcBride <[email protected]> wrote: > MZMcBride wrote: > >Wes and Katherine: do you know what steps need to be taken in order to > >release the documents surrounding this Knight Foundation grant? Or do you > >know who at the Wikimedia Foundation would be the best/most appropriate > >contact to figure this out? Geoff and the legal team? One of the > >grants-related staff such as Janice? Any help would be appreciated! > > Remembering that similar questions about grant agreements have come > previously, I just dug through my e-mail archives and found a 2011 e-mail > from Lisa Gruwell. In the e-mail, she's very supportive of the idea of > putting grants documents on Meta-Wiki. Copying her as well on this thread > as she's still working with the Wikimedia Foundation, though it's not > clear to me whether her role has shifted to other focuses. > > In case anyone is curious, here is Sue's response from October 2011: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2011-October/116339.html > > MZMcBride > > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
