David Gerard

You probably want to leave messages for me at en:User talk:David Gerard, or email me at dgerard@gmail.com. If you leave them here, it may be some time before I see them!

Phone (WMF internal and press enquiries only please!) is 07733 223 584 (UK) or +44 773 223 584 (international).

Apology for removal of admin rights

David, I'm sorry for the abrupt removal of admin rights on this wiki, which wasn't announced in advance. We've been talking internally for a while about making the governance structure of this wiki more clear, i.e., decisions regarding content and practices in this wiki are ultimately up to WMF staff. There may be projects during which it makes sense to assign temporary adminship to volunteers, as well, but we wanted to start with a clear separation of roles and responsibilities.

I apologize, though, for the hasty implementation of this decision! I didn't intend to express any disrespect or distrust. On the contrary, I'm very grateful for all the work you and other volunteers have done on the Wikimedia Foundation wiki over the years, and I hope you won't be too discouraged by this experience. I'll be posting an update about the next steps for wikimediafoundation.org on the wikimedia-l mailing list soon.

Please do reach out to me if there's anything else I can do. Gyoung (talk) 04:48, 13 May 2013 (UTC)