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Motion:Foundation Staff Accounts
The Wikimedia Foundation is requested to do away with "grandfather rights" regarding personal and official accounts of staff members, and to instead require all staff members to use accounts with a personally identifiable name with "WMF" appended when acting on-wiki in their capacity as staff. We ask them to extend this courtesy in order to reduce confusion regarding when our users are dealing with a fellow member of the community or a representative of the Foundation. Staff accounts, their actions, and their user rights or permissions shall be under the sole jurisdiction of the Foundation. Personal accounts of staff members shall be considered members of the community and shall be treated as such, including access to user rights or advanced permissions. While the English Misplaced Pages cannot make a binding decision on this matter we believe it is evident that making this change will ease communication and improve general relations between our project and the Foundation and we further believe the Foundation can institute this minor change with little to no disruption of their activities, and we further ask that they consider making this a requirement not just here but at all WMF projects.
- For this motion there are 11 active arbitrators, not counting 1 recused. With 0 arbitrators abstaining, 6 support or oppose votes are a majority.
| Abstentions | Support votes needed for majority |
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| 0–1 | 6 |
| 2–3 | 5 |
| 4–5 | 4 |
Support
- As proposer. Even if we do accept the full case, I think this particular aspect can be dealt with by motion. I am confident that if it passes the Foundation will respect the decision and make what is really a very minor change, but a change that will alleviate the lingering confusion regarding the exact role of staff who also maintain personal accounts. Beeblebrox (talk) 19:24, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
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Community Comments
- From my experiences as a steward, I believe something like this is long overdue. --Rschen7754 18:54, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
- Does anything need to be said about linking the two accounts? Alanscottwalker (talk) 19:51, 12 July 2014 (UTC)