Hello,

Disclaimer: I'm one of the candidates.

I'm Envel (User:Envlh [1]), a Wikidata volunteer since 2015. I'm an active member of the Wikibase Community User Group; for instance, I wrote the largest part of our 2019 report [2]. I'm an active volunteer in the Wikibase community; for instance I help fixing bugs in Wikibase [3] and I attend conferences like WikidataCon (2017 & 2019).

A few weeks ago, I started a discussion [4] on Meta in the Wikibase Community User Group to define who should be sent to the next Wikimedia Summit as representative of the group, explaining that I was interested to go. I advertised the discussion on the Wikibase Telegram group (and I should have sent an email here, this was a mistake). I had only one direct answer, from VIGNERON, explaining that it was fine for him. Given that, I applied.

At the moment, my application is on hold because two were received for the Wikibase Community User Group by the organizers of the Wikimedia Summit. As their job is not to resolve community disputes, their position is that the two candidates have to decide by Friday which one cancels their application, or both applications will be cancelled.

I exchanged a few emails with the other candidate, Ester Bonet (User:Tiputini [5]). She recognized that she has no interest in Wikibase, and that the spot was given to her privately by the "signatories of the affiliate", Laura and Miguel, who submitted the previous report in 2018. At the moment, I'm unable to find any activity about Wikibase from any of them in 2019.

I'm concerned that the spot dedicated to the Wikibase community would be used by someone who have no interest in Wikibase and was never involved in this project and community, especially while Ester is affiliated to other groups which already have representatives in the Summit and hence have their voice represented. I'm also concerned that important decisions are taken privately on behalf of the Wikibase community, without involving it.

You can act, by supporting my application here: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Summit_2020

Cheers, Envel

[1] https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/User:Envlh [2] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Reports/2019 [3] https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T234322 [4] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikibase_Community_User_Group#Wikimedia... [5] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Tiputini

On Wed, Dec 18, 2019 at 4:28 PM Nicolas VIGNERON vigneron.nicolas@gmail.com wrote:

Hi all,

Sorry for this last minute e-mail but there seems to be some confusion around the selection of the representative of the Wikimedia Summit and we have two candidates for one place.

To untie this knot, I've created a formal page of vote: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikibase_Community_User_Group/Summit_2020

Cheers, ~nicolas _______________________________________________ Wikibaseug mailing list Wikibaseug@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikibaseug