Complex sentence: Generally, large-scale WMF projects such as KE are discussed publicly with the Wikipedia community, but this did not happen with this project as the Wikipedia community volunteers stated the secrecy around the KE project was at odds with WMF's transparency values.
Split into simpler sentences: Generally, large-scale WMF projects such as KE are discussed publicly with the Wikipedia community, but this did not happen with this project. The Wikipedia community volunteers stated the secrecy around the KE project was at odds with WMF's transparency values.