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Hello Maryana, the following part was archived from a bot after 90 days with no response and so I post it again after I wish if possible an answer to the question. Welcome in the Wikimedia Projects. I wish you success in your position and hope that you collaborate good with the people who participate in the Wikimedia Projects and learn about how the projects work in the next months. I for myself think that you have a responsibilty as the CEO of the Wikimedia Foundation that you dont take so much money for your work and my ideal vision is that the compensation for the CEO is not much higher as for other employees. I dont see good reasons for that. Please think about the compensation you get and if it is possible to reduce it. You could say to the board that you take only a part of the compensation and that would be from my point of view a good signal for other people. As long as there are people who have no work and who are poor it is from my point of view better to pay more people instead of a few people a lot. Please tell me what you think about that, do you have plans to pay attention that your compensation is not much higher than that of other employees of the Wikimedia Foundation and how your compensation is calculated. Can you explain me how the difference between the compensations of different people can be explained.--Hogü-456 (talk) 20:49, 13 January 2022 (UTC)

Hi Hogü-456 - It was nice talking to you briefly at the Conversation with Trustees last week. Thank you for reposting your question. Having spent the last decade working on youth unemployment in Africa, I know how difficult it is when people can’t find work and don’t have enough money. (South Africa has one of the highest rates of unemployment in the world). I also know that inequality is only getting worse in every society. So I don’t take for granted my fortune to have secure employment and earn a good salary. In all of my CEO jobs, I paid close attention to how my salary compared to the lowest paid person and I asked about this in the recruitment process for the Wikimedia Foundation. Salaries of senior leaders, especially the CEO, are often set by a board. In doing this, I think boards consider many factors like the complexity of the job now and in the future, the availability of the required skills, what it takes to bring in the right people, and also data from similar organizations to provide additional information. The Wikimedia Foundation Board will review my salary regularly as well as the compensation framework for the entire organisation. MIskander-WMF (talk) 15:29, 19 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi Maryana,

We briefly chatted as part of the trustees conversation - I know your formal listening tour is over, but I was wondering if there might be an opportunity for us to talk at your convenience - rather than specifying one out of several things as specific topic, I thought that could be left open. More generally, I'm interested in how the communities and the WMF interact - whether that be formal discussion (consultations), staff member/editor chats, or direct actions. Nosebagbear (talk) 14:14, 23 February 2022 (UTC)

@Nosebagbear Thanks for this message. As I have said before, the tour ended but the listening continues. Would be happy to make time for a conversation. Please can you email me at miskander@wikimedia.org to find a time. MIskander-WMF (talk) 02:06, 25 February 2022 (UTC)

Hi,

I'd like to ask the WMF to put out a statement explaining what it is doing about editors being doxed [1] and reportedly arrested [2] [3] [4] [5] (enwiki discussions: [6] [7]) in Belarus (and potentially elsewhere). Thanks, Levivich (talk) 17:55, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

@Levivich A statement is now available. (Sidenote: The links in that archived copy don't all work, due to a bug in the upstream software.) -- Quiddity (WMF) (talk) 21:55, 11 March 2022 (UTC)

Hi Maryana,

I was just reading the Axios article where you indicated that Wikimedia Enterprise is a step in the right direction.

As I said in our meeting I thought that Enterprise had been doing an excellent job at walking a difficult path, but I was wondering whether this meant you'd had thoughts as to what would be the next step down that path? Nosebagbear (talk) 11:13, 23 March 2022 (UTC)

@Nosebagbear:,

Thanks for the question. I’m glad to hear you agree that ‘’Wikimedia Enterprise‘’ is coming along. What I meant is simply that this is a long term initiative - you may already be aware of the current steps underway by the team, but if not you can check out their product roadmap. Thanks, MIskander-WMF (talk) 19:26, 24 March 2022 (UTC)

How are there zero talk page comments on the CEO of Wikimedia? Is there something I'm missing? – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 08:55, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

Hi Ilovemydoodle. Not missing anything — you’ve come to the right place. I use SpBot to archive resolved and older discussions so that the page stays organized for people landing here. People also regularly reach me through email (miskander@wikimedia.org) and on open community calls, so there’s not always a lot of traffic to this page, but you can contact me here anytime. —MIskander-WMF (talk) 17:57, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

Thank you for answering! I didn't expect this would get any answer, let alone directly from you. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 06:26, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

I am also surprised to see no vandalism here. Do vandals just not know? – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 06:35, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Ilovemydoodle Shhh don't tell them :) But in all seriousness Maryana has set things up to keep this page organized, so we would deal with vandalism if it arose. Nice that it hasn't, though. --ELappen (WMF) (talk) 18:23, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

All other employee usernames (to my knowledge) end in "(WMF)" why does this one end in "-WMF" instead? – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 09:00, 26 June 2022 (UTC)

@Ilovemydoodle: In January 2022 the Foundation moved from (WMF) to -WMF so that our usernames would work better with right-to-left parsers. The change is aimed at supporting better multilingual communications. Staff that started during or after January 2022 automatically have the new username format, and staff with the old format can request a change (I have yet to request mine, as you can see!). You'll notice the -WMF becoming more common as staff request changes and new staff join. —ELappen (WMF) (talk) 21:07, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

@ELappen (WMF): Thank you for answering! While I personally prefer "(WMF)", I understand that this will support accessibility, and I thus support the change. – Ilovemydoodle (talk) 06:23, 1 July 2022 (UTC)

Hi Maryana,

We have posted an open letter to the Foundation and Board of Trustees. It concerns the development of MediaWiki extensions and needs the personal attention of all concerned developers and managers. Please see it at:

meta: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Open_letter_from_English_Wikipedia_New_Page_Reviewers and en.Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_pages_patrol/Coordination/2022_WMF_letter

Your comments are welcome. Many thanks.

Kind regards, On behalf of the English Wikipedia Community MB (talk) 02:33, 22 September 2022 (UTC)

Hi MB, you've probably seen but wanted to note here that the Product department has posted a reply on the open letter's talk page on enwiki, as well as on the recent Signpost article. --ELappen (WMF) (talk) 12:15, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi ELappen (WMF), you can rest assured that MB and I are monitoring every possible venue where communications from the WMF and the BoT might arrive. We don't regard readers' comments to newspapers as official replies but we have seen a message from a group manager that was posted very recently to the proper venue.

As this is Ms Iskander's talk page we are expecting at least a personal short word of reassurance that she is at least aware of the issue herself. We realise that a CEO's mandate covers many aspects of the Foundation's work, but without the quality control of articles assured by the volunteers at NPP, there will be no English Wikipedia that is instrumental for pulling in most of the donations. Thus our concern is everyone's concern, especially those at the very top. Kudpung (talk) 14:43, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Hi, I am aware, and hope you'll take up the invitation from the Product team to discuss your priorities. —MIskander-WMF (talk) 15:34, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

Thank you so much for your reply. As the issues are as much in the interest of the Fundation as the volunteers that make Wikipedia work, you can rest assured that we will work as closely as possible with Product to resolve them. Kudpung (talk) 15:46, 5 October 2022 (UTC)

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