Hello everyone,
As explained in the announcement forwarded to this list earlier today (thanks Sarah!), Wikimedia chapters around the world are beginning the biennial process of selecting two members of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees. As an official Wikimedia chapter, Wikimedia DC will have the opportunity to participate in this selection process.
Unfortunately, the indications we are receiving from the process moderators is that public discussion of the candidates will be severely curtailed by the confidentiality rules currently in place; we will not, for example, be able to distribute the list of candidates, or to provide direct question-and-answer sessions between the candidates and our members.
Nevertheless, we intend to do everything in our power to ensure that the opinions and concerns of our membership -- that is, you -- are taken into account during the selection. In support of that goal, we would like to ask that you send us any input you might have regarding the process and its desired result. In particular, we are looking for questions that we should ask of the candidates, as well as criteria that we can use to evaluate a candidate's suitability for the Board of Trustees.
Please get us any input by March 1, so that we have it available when the candidate question-and-answer period begins. Suggestions may be posted to this list; alternatively, if you would prefer provide them privately, you may send them to secretary@wikidc.org.
Thanks, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
Who from WikiDC will be participating in the selection process? Thanks, -- Bob Platt
Hello everyone,
As explained in the announcement forwarded to this list earlier today (thanks Sarah!), Wikimedia chapters around the world are beginning the biennial process of selecting two members of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees. As an official Wikimedia chapter, Wikimedia DC will have the opportunity to participate in this selection process.
Unfortunately, the indications we are receiving from the process moderators is that public discussion of the candidates will be severely curtailed by the confidentiality rules currently in place; we will not, for example, be able to distribute the list of candidates, or to provide direct question-and-answer sessions between the candidates and our members.
Nevertheless, we intend to do everything in our power to ensure that the opinions and concerns of our membership -- that is, you -- are taken into account during the selection. In support of that goal, we would like to ask that you send us any input you might have regarding the process and its desired result. In particular, we are looking for questions that we should ask of the candidates, as well as criteria that we can use to evaluate a candidate's suitability for the Board of Trustees.
Please get us any input by March 1, so that we have it available when the candidate question-and-answer period begins. Suggestions may be posted to this list; alternatively, if you would prefer provide them privately, you may send them to secretary@wikidc.org.
Thanks, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
I recommend delegating the work to a committee which will report its selection to the wider board for us to vote.
Who will be on this committee? Certainly not I.
James Hare
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 2, 2012, at 3:42 AM, bob@racepacket.com wrote:
Who from WikiDC will be participating in the selection process? Thanks, -- Bob Platt
Hello everyone,
As explained in the announcement forwarded to this list earlier today (thanks Sarah!), Wikimedia chapters around the world are beginning the biennial process of selecting two members of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees. As an official Wikimedia chapter, Wikimedia DC will have the opportunity to participate in this selection process.
Unfortunately, the indications we are receiving from the process moderators is that public discussion of the candidates will be severely curtailed by the confidentiality rules currently in place; we will not, for example, be able to distribute the list of candidates, or to provide direct question-and-answer sessions between the candidates and our members.
Nevertheless, we intend to do everything in our power to ensure that the opinions and concerns of our membership -- that is, you -- are taken into account during the selection. In support of that goal, we would like to ask that you send us any input you might have regarding the process and its desired result. In particular, we are looking for questions that we should ask of the candidates, as well as criteria that we can use to evaluate a candidate's suitability for the Board of Trustees.
Please get us any input by March 1, so that we have it available when the candidate question-and-answer period begins. Suggestions may be posted to this list; alternatively, if you would prefer provide them privately, you may send them to secretary@wikidc.org.
Thanks, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
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That's reasonable enough, but, as I said in my earlier email, this committee would need to consist only of current board members, which rather limits our ability to do anything creative.
Cheers, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:32 AM, James Hare messedrocker@gmail.com wrote:
I recommend delegating the work to a committee which will report its selection to the wider board for us to vote.
Who will be on this committee? Certainly not I.
James Hare
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 2, 2012, at 3:42 AM, bob@racepacket.com wrote:
Who from WikiDC will be participating in the selection process? Thanks, -- Bob Platt
Hello everyone,
As explained in the announcement forwarded to this list earlier today (thanks Sarah!), Wikimedia chapters around the world are beginning the biennial process of selecting two members of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees. As an official Wikimedia chapter, Wikimedia DC will have the opportunity to participate in this selection process.
Unfortunately, the indications we are receiving from the process moderators is that public discussion of the candidates will be severely curtailed
by
the confidentiality rules currently in place; we will not, for example,
be
able to distribute the list of candidates, or to provide direct question-and-answer sessions between the candidates and our members.
Nevertheless, we intend to do everything in our power to ensure that the opinions and concerns of our membership -- that is, you -- are taken
into
account during the selection. In support of that goal, we would like to ask that you send us any input you might have regarding the process and its desired result. In particular, we are looking for questions that we should ask of the candidates, as well as criteria that we can use to evaluate a candidate's suitability for the Board of Trustees.
Please get us any input by March 1, so that we have it available when
the
candidate question-and-answer period begins. Suggestions may be posted
to
this list; alternatively, if you would prefer provide them privately,
you
may send them to secretary@wikidc.org.
Thanks, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
I don't think that's actually a problem. To state my motives more directly, I want nothing to do with the process but I am happy rubberstamping a candidate that more involved people have researched and evaluated.
James Hare
2012/2/2 Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@wikidc.org:
That's reasonable enough, but, as I said in my earlier email, this committee would need to consist only of current board members, which rather limits our ability to do anything creative.
Cheers, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org%C2%A0%7C%C2%A0@wikimediadc
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:32 AM, James Hare messedrocker@gmail.com wrote:
I recommend delegating the work to a committee which will report its selection to the wider board for us to vote.
Who will be on this committee? Certainly not I.
James Hare
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 2, 2012, at 3:42 AM, bob@racepacket.com wrote:
Who from WikiDC will be participating in the selection process? Thanks, -- Bob Platt
Hello everyone,
As explained in the announcement forwarded to this list earlier today (thanks Sarah!), Wikimedia chapters around the world are beginning the biennial process of selecting two members of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees. As an official Wikimedia chapter, Wikimedia DC will have the opportunity to participate in this selection process.
Unfortunately, the indications we are receiving from the process moderators is that public discussion of the candidates will be severely curtailed by the confidentiality rules currently in place; we will not, for example, be able to distribute the list of candidates, or to provide direct question-and-answer sessions between the candidates and our members.
Nevertheless, we intend to do everything in our power to ensure that the opinions and concerns of our membership -- that is, you -- are taken into account during the selection. In support of that goal, we would like to ask that you send us any input you might have regarding the process and its desired result. In particular, we are looking for questions that we should ask of the candidates, as well as criteria that we can use to evaluate a candidate's suitability for the Board of Trustees.
Please get us any input by March 1, so that we have it available when the candidate question-and-answer period begins. Suggestions may be posted to this list; alternatively, if you would prefer provide them privately, you may send them to secretary@wikidc.org.
Thanks, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
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Well, that's something we can discuss at our upcoming meeting.
In the meantime, however, we *do* need input from the members on how they'd like us to approach this process -- regardless of who among us wind up implementing their suggestions. So, please, send us your input!
Cheers, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:04 AM, James Hare jamesmhare@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think that's actually a problem. To state my motives more directly, I want nothing to do with the process but I am happy rubberstamping a candidate that more involved people have researched and evaluated.
James Hare
2012/2/2 Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@wikidc.org:
That's reasonable enough, but, as I said in my earlier email, this
committee
would need to consist only of current board members, which rather limits
our
ability to do anything creative.
Cheers, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 8:32 AM, James Hare messedrocker@gmail.com
wrote:
I recommend delegating the work to a committee which will report its selection to the wider board for us to vote.
Who will be on this committee? Certainly not I.
James Hare
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 2, 2012, at 3:42 AM, bob@racepacket.com wrote:
Who from WikiDC will be participating in the selection process? Thanks, -- Bob Platt
Hello everyone,
As explained in the announcement forwarded to this list earlier today (thanks Sarah!), Wikimedia chapters around the world are beginning
the
biennial process of selecting two members of the Wikimedia
Foundation's
Board of Trustees. As an official Wikimedia chapter, Wikimedia DC
will
have the opportunity to participate in this selection process.
Unfortunately, the indications we are receiving from the process moderators is that public discussion of the candidates will be severely
curtailed
by the confidentiality rules currently in place; we will not, for
example,
be able to distribute the list of candidates, or to provide direct question-and-answer sessions between the candidates and our members.
Nevertheless, we intend to do everything in our power to ensure that the opinions and concerns of our membership -- that is, you -- are taken into account during the selection. In support of that goal, we would like to ask that you send us any input you might have regarding the process
and
its desired result. In particular, we are looking for questions that we should ask of the candidates, as well as criteria that we can use to
evaluate
a candidate's suitability for the Board of Trustees.
Please get us any input by March 1, so that we have it available when the candidate question-and-answer period begins. Suggestions may be
posted
to this list; alternatively, if you would prefer provide them privately, you may send them to secretary@wikidc.org.
Thanks, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
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Hi,
On Feb 2, 2012 8:41 AM, "Kirill Lokshin" kirill.lokshin@wikidc.org wrote:
That's reasonable enough, but, as I said in my earlier email, this committee would need to consist only of current board members, which rather limits our ability to do anything creative.
I think there's a possibility of having the committee include non-board members.
There's already talk about making the candidates statements and other info public (not yet decided and I don't really know the rules or other details of the selection process) and also talk about making some of the discussions available to private members-only fora within a chapter. (I guess with someone that has access to both manually copy/pasting between them.)
Anyway, if you do choose a candidate selection/evaluation committee that includes non-board members then I think it should be possible to get them subscribed to both the list and wiki. (i.e. you ask and you get at least one supportive response and no objections)
-Jeremy (who only reads ~1/3 of what goes on over there so may be slightly off)
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 9:51 AM, Jeremy Baron jeremy@tuxmachine.com wrote:
Hi,
On Feb 2, 2012 8:41 AM, "Kirill Lokshin" kirill.lokshin@wikidc.org wrote:
That's reasonable enough, but, as I said in my earlier email, this
committee would need to consist only of current board members, which rather limits our ability to do anything creative.
I think there's a possibility of having the committee include non-board members.
There's already talk about making the candidates statements and other info public (not yet decided and I don't really know the rules or other details of the selection process) and also talk about making some of the discussions available to private members-only fora within a chapter. (I guess with someone that has access to both manually copy/pasting between them.)
Anyway, if you do choose a candidate selection/evaluation committee that includes non-board members then I think it should be possible to get them subscribed to both the list and wiki. (i.e. you ask and you get at least one supportive response and no objections)
That's not my impression; even under normal circumstances, the chapters wiki (as opposed to the internal wiki) is restricted to chapter board members and employees, and there's currently discussion about removing even the latter for the duration of the selection process.
We will, of course, continue to follow the discussions there; but, at this point, I don't see any indication that the process is going to be made substantially more open than it currently is.
Cheers, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
Participation (or, more precisely, access to the chapter wiki where the process will take place) is limited to members of chapter boards. As far as I know, all of our current board members should have access at this point, although it would be good to verify that.
Cheers, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 3:42 AM, bob@racepacket.com wrote:
Who from WikiDC will be participating in the selection process? Thanks, -- Bob Platt
Hello everyone,
As explained in the announcement forwarded to this list earlier today (thanks Sarah!), Wikimedia chapters around the world are beginning the biennial process of selecting two members of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees. As an official Wikimedia chapter, Wikimedia DC will have the opportunity to participate in this selection process.
Unfortunately, the indications we are receiving from the process moderators is that public discussion of the candidates will be severely curtailed by the confidentiality rules currently in place; we will not, for example,
be
able to distribute the list of candidates, or to provide direct question-and-answer sessions between the candidates and our members.
Nevertheless, we intend to do everything in our power to ensure that the opinions and concerns of our membership -- that is, you -- are taken into account during the selection. In support of that goal, we would like to ask that you send us any input you might have regarding the process and its desired result. In particular, we are looking for questions that we should ask of the candidates, as well as criteria that we can use to evaluate a candidate's suitability for the Board of Trustees.
Please get us any input by March 1, so that we have it available when the candidate question-and-answer period begins. Suggestions may be posted
to
this list; alternatively, if you would prefer provide them privately, you may send them to secretary@wikidc.org.
Thanks, Kirill
-- Kirill Lokshin Secretary | Wikimedia District of Columbia http://wikimediadc.org | @wikimediadc _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-DC mailing list Wikimedia-DC@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-dc
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2012/2/1 Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@wikidc.org:
Hello everyone,
As explained in the announcement forwarded to this list earlier today (thanks Sarah!), Wikimedia chapters around the world are beginning the biennial process of selecting two members of the Wikimedia Foundation's Board of Trustees. As an official Wikimedia chapter, Wikimedia DC will have the opportunity to participate in this selection process.
Unfortunately, the indications we are receiving from the process moderators is that public discussion of the candidates will be severely curtailed by the confidentiality rules currently in place; we will not, for example, be able to distribute the list of candidates, or to provide direct question-and-answer sessions between the candidates and our members.
Nevertheless, we intend to do everything in our power to ensure that the opinions and concerns of our membership -- that is, you -- are taken into account during the selection. In support of that goal, we would like to ask that you send us any input you might have regarding the process and its desired result. In particular, we are looking for questions that we should ask of the candidates, as well as criteria that we can use to evaluate a candidate's suitability for the Board of Trustees.
Please get us any input by March 1, so that we have it available when the candidate question-and-answer period begins. Suggestions may be posted to this list; alternatively, if you would prefer provide them privately, you may send them to secretary@wikidc.org.
For those of you who haven't seen the board manual on Meta, you might find it helpful also to think of what kinds of questions to ask:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_board_manual
-Kat
On 2/2/2012 2:28 PM, Kat Walsh wrote:
For those of you who haven't seen the board manual on Meta, you might find it helpful also to think of what kinds of questions to ask: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_board_manual -Kat
First, I assume you all will know their real names so you can do any extra background research you think necessary.
Second, my biggest concerns are: * that they support better outreach to increase the diversity of sex, age, race, ethnicity across all projects. * they do what they can to improve the speed and thoroughness of training of editors. * they come up with creative means of fundraising to help Wikimedia improve its physical and human resources and secure its independence (and if that means accepting not overly intrusive advertisements from select advertisers, if they legally can, I'm all for it)
Carol in dc
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 19:05, Carol Moore DC carolmooredc@verizon.net wrote:
and if that means accepting not overly intrusive advertisements from select advertisers, if they legally can, I'm all for it
FYI
historical: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advertising_on_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_Libre#Reasons_for_the_split
brainstorming: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advertising
interesting #s: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polls#Should_Wikipedia_show_adverts.3F https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polls#Does_Wikipedia_show_adverts.3F
modern responses to people saying we should run ads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advertisements
-Jeremy
Thanks for links! I knew this had come up before but didn't occur to me to search around for links. To me the best argument from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advertisements is it doesn't bring in much money and enough comes from other sources. i.e. the bottom line... Yeah!
On 2/2/2012 7:24 PM, Jeremy Baron wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 19:05, Carol Moore DCcarolmooredc@verizon.net wrote:
and if that means accepting not overly intrusive advertisements from select advertisers, if they legally can, I'm all for it
FYI
historical: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advertising_on_Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enciclopedia_Libre#Reasons_for_the_split
brainstorming: https://strategy.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advertising
interesting #s: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polls#Should_Wikipedia_show_adverts.3F https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Polls#Does_Wikipedia_show_adverts.3F
modern responses to people saying we should run ads: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Advertisements
-Jeremy
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