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.
Dear all,
as SJ summarized on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_roles#Minutes_and_transcript
we discussed some important topics at our last IRC meeting.
During our work we have seen that it is neither reasonable nor
possible to separate movement roles from other discussions with impact
on Wikimedia, the movement and its players or even from other people
who are part of the whole thing. We agreed that we want to wrap up
this phase of movement roles not without leading to the next stage
where these ideas will be gathered and pursued by those who are
affected, at places where these discussions already have found more
resonance than in the movement roles project.
This needs some follow up and some things to be done. And it has to be
done soon if we want to draw a line under this phase of movement roles
at the Wikimedia Conference. It's our responsibility, there will be
nobody else doing this instead of us.
As some of you may have noticed I've started to clean up the movement
roles' pages. There were a lot of moves in the past. We started with
the prefix "Movement roles group", switched to "Movement roles
project" to end with "Movement roles". There were a lot of simple
cosmetical moves too, only to capitalize or de-capitalize words. And
nobody ever fixed the remaining redirects or the links on the pages.
This made it absolutely impossible to figure out where we have
duplicates or missing links, how pages are connected and how to find
them. I hope to finish with this tomorrow and let you know.
To collect and arrange the things we agreed to do, I've created
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_roles/Wrap_up
It supports to pick up a smaller tasks, more concrete and most
important to prepare a proper finalization.
Help is appreciated, please complete and rearrange the list. And
choose something you would like to work on the next weeks. ;)
Best, Alice.
As all respondents to the Doodle can make it then, our next meeting
will be on 1530 UTC on Sunday Feb 12, in #movement-roles on freenode.
Those who are around may want to come to IRC tomorrow at the same time
(1530'1630 UTC), at least joan, lodewijk and I should be free then.
SJ
The Wikimedia Board is drafting two resolutions to recognize new
models of affiliation. The text will be posted on Meta for discussion
and improvement, between now and 10 March.
== Expansion of movement affiliation models ==
In acknowledgement of the diversity of groups contributing to our
movement, the Board recognizes an expanded framework for affiliation
of Wikimedia groups furthering our movement:
*: '''Chapters''': legal entities with bylaws and mission aligned with
Wikimedia's, focused on supporting related work within a geography.
Chapters must reach agreement with the Foundation for use of the
Wikimedia trademarks for their work, publicity, and fundraising; and
would be allowed to use a name clearly linking them to Wikimedia.
*: '''Partner Organizations''': legal entities with bylaws and mission
aligned with Wikimedia's, focused on a cultural, linguistic, or other
topic; not be exclusive to any geography. Partner organizations must
reach agreement with the Foundation for use of the Wikimedia
trademarks for their work, publicity, and fundraising; and would be
allowed to use a name clearly linking them to Wikimedia.
*: '''Associations''': open-membership groups with an established
contact person and stated purpose, which need basic use of the
Wikimedia trademarks for promotion and organization of projects and
events. A new association can be formed by listing its information in
a public place, and confirming their contact information. An
association contact can sign an optional agreement to use Wikimedia
marks in a limited way in the scope of their work. Small projects can
be supported through individual reimbursement.
*: '''Affiliates''': like-minded organizations that actively support
the movement's work. They are listed publicly and granted limited use
of the marks on websites and posters indicating their support of and
collaboration with Wikimedia.
== Recognizing new affiliation models ==
In connection with its decision to expand the framework of affiliated
groups, the Board expands the mandate of the Chapters Committee to
include all affiliations, and asks it to update its scope and rules of
procedure to cover:
* recognizing all group models
* mentoring chapters and partner organiations
* reviewing and summarizing the status of all groups
The committee should also indicate what resources it will need to be
effective, including staff support and resources from the Foundation.
This proposed charter and plan should be shared with the Board by 15
June, for approval by its July 2012 meeting.
References:
* [[wmf:Resolution:Chapters committee/Scope|]]
* [[wmf:Resolution:Chapters committee/Rules of procedure|]]
Sample charter:
* [[wmf:Audit charter|]]
Would anyone object to moving to a public mailing list? It would not
include historical archives.
I know that we have little traffic on the list, and are wrapping
things up, but it would be good to have all of our channels public so
long as we continue using them.
Regards,
SJ