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I worked for Lila when we were both at SugarCRM, and I never got the sense of what is being claimed at WMF was her modus operandi (I found dealing with her a fa
by zeruch 11y ago
I worked for Lila when we were both at SugarCRM, and I never got the sense of what is being claimed at WMF was her modus operandi (I found dealing with her a fairly transparent affair, which is why I thought she landed at WMF). It's really quite dumbfounding.
- shmerl 11y agoWas she making all those decisions about secrecy?
- wpietri 11y agoI know little about current WMF circumstances, but my guess is that fairly transparent for a corporation would be seen as fairly secretive at WMF. I think part of the problem here is that she had never edited Wikipedia before joining, which means it would have been very hard for her to understand the vast cultural differences. Wikipedia comes out of the open-source and open-culture world, which has a very strong transparency bias, and which has had to fight hard to maintain that openness. And my experience is that Wikipedia even stronger than that, in that the editor communities organize many thousands of people all in public. Making that work requires very strong habits of transparency. It's very different than current American business culture, where executives get a substantial level of deference and assumed control of information.
- chris_wot 11y agoThis. You have captured the problem in a nutshell.