Hoi,
This is great. So we are in a good shape to move from only an access
program to new projects to something more.
It would help when the notes from the Berlin meeting are published; it
allows me and others who were not there understand the thinking at that
time.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 20 April 2017 at 23:05, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees <
WMFboard(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Dear Milos Rancic,
The board trusts the Language Committee to conduct its work by simple
majority, or however it sees fit. There is nothing in your Charter about
how you are supposed to reach the decision, so you can change your practice
(and maybe work on improvements of your Charter).
The eligibility rules for approving the projects have not been changed, so
it seems that the revision of the way the Committee organises its work will
not result in a major and rapid change in the rate of approvals of language
projects. If there is a desire to remodel the rules themselves, the board
would like to have that explained and justified so that we can approve it
or not first.
And thank you very much for your important work!
Yours sincerely,
Nataliia Tymkiv
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04/06/2017 11:33 - Milos Rancic написав(-ла):
Dear Board members,
On behalf of the fellow Language committee members, I am sending the
following request to you:
During more than a decade of its existence, Language committee's main
task
was to block creation of the projects. Having in
mind that goal and the
fact that the capacities of the Wikimedia movement at that time were not
linguistically strong, the main rule related to the decision-making
process
inside of the Language committee was consensus.
Language policy is different today than it was at the time of creation.
We
have established a common sense practice based on
the situation then. As
a
result, we ask the Board to reconsider the rule
of consensus inside of
the
Language committee and allow it to make decisions
by majority,
supermajority or other methods defined by the committee itself.
Milos
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