Two male trustees are leaving as their terms have expired. One male trustee has been controversially ousted.

Two trustees have been appointed, one female, the other male. There is a petition to reject the new male trustee which may or may not succeed, and if it succeeds who can predict the gender of the next appointment.

There will be a replacement for the ousted male trustee, and that replacement could be of any gender.

So the events of the last few weeks have left the board with a lightly more even gender balance and could switch the balance further. But I doubt that was anyone's primary motive in all this kerfuffle.

On 26 January 2016 at 17:09, Risker <risker.wp@gmail.com> wrote:

While I believe that the issues raised in the changes in the Board of Trustees are important and worthy of attention for many reasons, it does not appear to me that there are issues specific to (or particularly relevant to) the gender gap, except in a very, very peripheral way. 

 

Risker/Anne

On 26 January 2016 at 11:20, Carol Moore dc <carolmooredc@verizon.net> wrote:

Wondering if there is any particular relevance to the gender gap issue in the removal of one board member and protests against the new one? Or just a general "editor trust" issue, which makes many editors dis-trust any "close the gap" programs/initiatives by WMF?? (Or at least gives them an *excuse* to distrust them!)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Heilman
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:James_Heilman_Removal
http://www.examiner.com/article/the-doctor-is-out-says-wmf-board

AND

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnnon_Geshuri
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Vote_of_no_confidence_on_Arnnon_Geshuri
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/01/editors-demand-ouster-of-wikimedia-board-member-involved-in-no-poach-deal/

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