I have no opinion on whether the UG should vote yes or no, because it's not clear which vote is more likely to produce changes. A resounding no either from the community or from affiliates may just lead WMF to cancel the entire thing. The WMF BoT's current proposals are based on the premise that there is some support for the charter so they need to do something else in return for rejecting it.
The main change for the UG would perhaps be that it could become a tier 2 or even tier 3 affiliate: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Supplementary_Document/Futu...
Whether that's something to care about, I don't know. (They're proposing to abolish the distinction between thematic and geographic orgs and even the incorporation requirement, so in practice all tiers seem blurred.)
Il 02/07/24 23:16, Samuel Klein ha scritto:
Problems that may be irreversible: e) The current charter is impossible to update. [...]
I don't understand how this is possible. The charter may be unamendable, but it can't override the bylaws, so it can be abolished by the WMF BoT with a stroke of a pen at any time, no? Hence:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter#Half_measures_and_next...
Cheers, Federico