> having received attention through influence To clarify in case this gets read as a greater accusation than I intended: I have some personal experience poten

> having received attention through influence To clarify in case this gets read as a greater accusation than I intended: I have some personal experience potentially similar to the persons involved in the potential conflict of interest in this case: My partner was previously chair of the Wikimedia foundation board. I was made uncomfortable on a number of occasions by staff whom didn't otherwise know me from Adam being unusually responsive to me compared to other contributors with similar or greater community standing but less luminous connections. ... and this happened even though no one asked for it and though I tried to carefully avoid invoking it. No explicit corruption is needed to end up with an undue and improper influence, that's just how people work. I addressed it by reducing my involvement. I can only imagine that now-- with greater distance between WMF staff and the community since many of the old time community originated staff left during Lila's tenure as ED-- that this sort of issue is even worse, since staff members that knew me as a community member didn't act that way as far as I could tell.