Dear all,
Many thanks for bringing the discussion on New Models of Affiliations this
far.
Building on earlier Movement Roles discussions from last year and on the
New Models working group's discussions earlier this month [1], here are a
set of draft principles and parameters for the four categories of models:
-Chapters or National/Sub-national Organizations
-Partner Organizations or Focused Organizations
-Associations or Wiki Groups
-Affiliates or Official Partners of the Wikimedia Movement
They can all be accessed from the Wikimedia affiliation models summary page
[2].
Apart from comments, questions and thoughts that will help us to clarify
and strengthen these draft principles and parameters, we would very much
like your feedback on the proposed nomenclature.
In the working group, we agreed that the names "chapters, partners,
associations and affiliates" are often misleading, somewhat
interchangeable, can mean different things in different contexts, and may
get lost in translation.
Proposals to change the names are on the talk page [3]. Please do leave any
additional comments there.
Cheers,
Bishakha
[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_affiliation_models
[2] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models/Summary
[3] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_affiliation_models/Summary
Dear all,
A quick update on New Models of Affiliation for the Wikimedia Movement
since the publication of the board letter on 13 Feb. The letter is at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_affiliation_models. From the
emails responding to this, SJ and I extracted a number of relevant
questions that are slowly being discussed on the talk page.
A small informal working group is aiming to move this discussion forward in
the next 15 days. We are:
Bence Damakos - ChapCom
Bishakha Datta - WMF Board
Joan Goma - Amical
Sam Klein - WMF Board
Delphine Menard - WM DE, ChapCom
Achal Prabhala - ChapCom advisor
Marcos Talles - WM ES
Galileo Vidoni - WM AR
Our aim is to discuss and progressively fine-tune the draft proposal on New
Models of Affiliation for the Wikimedia Movement. Each of the members is
already part of this discussion, has expressed a deeper interest in the
issue, or is likely to be affected by it.
We will conduct our discussions on meta at
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_affiliation_models as per the
following timetable:
*2.1 Affiliation models, names, and overlaps
*
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_affiliation_models#Affiliatio…
Deadline to add our comments and additional questions to this section: 2
March
*2.2 Requirements for recognition
*
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_affiliation_models#Requiremen…
Deadline to add our comments, more questions to this section: 4 March
*2.3 Rights and duties *
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_affiliation_models#Rights_and…
Deadline for our comments and questions: 6 March
*2.4 Overlaps and privileged status within a region *
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_affiliation_models#Overlaps_a…
Deadline for c and q: 8 March
*2.5 Membership, communities and collaboration*
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_affiliation_models#Membership…
Deadline: 10 March
*2.6 Mentoring and review*
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_affiliation_models#Mentoring_…
Deadline: 12 March
*2.7 Governance*
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_affiliation_models#Governance
Deadline: 14 March
It would help us immensely if any of you with an interest in this issue
would participate in the meta discussion as per the time-table above.
(Broken into bite-sized pieces to ensure we can focus on smaller bits; the
whole thing is a lot to chew off at once). I will continue to announce the
smaller bits at the start of each to stimulate participation - and get back
next week on steps after 14 March.
We hope this will help us develop the New Models of Affiliation draft
proposal into a solid set of recommendations and look forward to your
interest and participation.
Cheers
Bishakha
Hi all,
I've been asked from organizers of the Wikimedia Conference for the
second time now, if Movement Roles is planning a meeting.
There have been registrations and questions from people involved in
movement roles, but it seems as if there are still a lot of questions.
Sadly I have no idea who else want to join a meeting in Berlin, except
of Anirudh, who also has contacted me personally. I don't believe that
we are getting further if we don't start to inform us and the
organizers about the what and the who.
What I definitely think is that the movement roles meeting on Thursday
should not be a back door to join the chapters conference. There is a
limitation of participants and it is up to the chapters to define such
general conditions for their meeting. If movement roles should be part
of the conference we need to discuss this with the program organizer
Harel (in Cc) and only if there is space for MR, those who are not
representatives of chapters or Foundation should join the general
meeting. (That's a personal opinion, not discussed with anyone
before.)
I don't have an idea if there is any budget for a movement roles
meeting, so this is still one of the open questions. SJ, do you have
more information?
Another one is, who would like to attend the meeting on thursday.
To fix the latter I've created
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles/Working_group_meeting_2012-3-…
Please sign in if you want to join the meeting.
Regards, Alice.