@Sandister I believe you know I can read and I have attended WMCONN just
like you so I sure know there are requirements.
Touching on the previous ones,I know for a fact that Felix was handpicked
for the first one but he still informed us all and we were all aware who
was participating and I guess this was same with the second one because we
were all aware of who was representing so it was more or less done
consultatively.
Like I said to Justice the Mailing list was set up for a reason and if we
have a WhatsApp group it should be supplementary and not the major means of
communication. And like I said earlier I am yet to see a Chapter which uses
a WhatsApp group as their main means of communication. Again I even have
issues as to how memebership should be limited to someone wanting to be on
a WhatsApp group.
And lastly don’t tell me I do not pay attention it’s not everyone who is
active on WhatsApp. That’s why the Mailing list was set up. And how come
you chose to post this only on the WhatsApp group when the practice has
been you posting on both?
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 4:05 AM Sandister Tei <sandistertei(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
*@Raphael* Add this to Justice's reply
WMCON does have requirements for how delegates are selected. Read
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Program_Design_Process#How_to_select_the_delegates>
please.
And I posted these requirements as well.
And no, the previous years we have not had a democratic way of choosing.
It is only last year, that I initiated the conscious, group selection of
delegates.
*@Rexford*
I have had a conversation about Whatsapp groups and mailing lists with
Asaf a while back.
Let me just say that for all who said they wanted to be part of the
group/remain in the group following this mailing list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-gh/2017-November/003627.html>
call for membership are on our Whatsapp group.
*Every single one of them*.
*@Georgina*
Please refer to the answer I gave Rexford. For now it is not about
Whatsapp's effectiveness.
The *sole reason *we bother with Whatsapp is that, *all the 37 members
who answered to this mailing list
<https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-gh/2017-November/003627.html>
call
for membership are on our Whatsapp group*.
*@Joy*
We have some recruits from Barcamp Accra. I have asked Justice to add them
to the mailing list. When that is done, I will post the link to the
membership registration again.
The reason why membership has had to be a bit more intimate than mass is
because we get many requests concerning the identification of our members.
And an organisation that doesn't have a record of members is a backward one.
Membership is processed these days. People even have membership IDs.
You missed the first because you had things to attend to. It's the same
with the group's volunteers. We don't register people every day. We also
have things to do.
We register in batches solely because of the movement-wide problem of
relying on volunteers to do things that normally paid staff should be doing.
*@Justice*
When you add your BC recruits, let me know.
Finally please *@Raphael @Rexford* pay attention to the group. Have a
thorough (non selective) interest in what we do and our welfare.
Don't wait till moments like this before you start asking questions.
Because more often than not, you'd be asking questions that have already
been answered.
--
Regards,
Sandister Tei
New Media+Journalism | Wikipedia | Purple People
linkedin.com/in/sandister-tei
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:46 AM, Raphael Berchie <rberchie(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello everyone happy new year and a belated Wiki
birthday to us all.
So I chanced on this
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Participants%27_L… and
realized Sadat is the one representing us at this year’s WMConn. Congrats
to him I have no shred of doubt that he will fully represent us and I have
no problem about his eligibility and competence.
My problem however is mode of selection. Was it decided us a community
or it was an individual’s decision because as far as I am concerned the
mailing list is the official place for having such discussions and I have
seen no such discussions here.
Again in previous years we have had consultatative talks and we have all
known who was representing us so what changed this year?
Lastly as a Usergroup we were allocated two slots for participation. How
come it is only one person.
I need some answers.
Regards
--
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