Sandister, I knew I wouldn't win this WhatsApp discussion thing with you,
but at least I had to try.
Finally please *@Rexford* pay attention to the group.
Have a thorough
(non selective) interest in what we do and our welfare.
I'll just take this quote for now, and coil back to my shell. And because
I'm not able to assist with any tasks these days doesn't necessarily
translate to the fact that I don't 'pay attention to the group' and that I
have 'a selective interest'. Well...
At least messages that come through the mailing list, I see and take note.
In my shell now, with a telescope overlooking my surroundings, including
the mailing list.
On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 10:04 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.or
g/wiki/Wikimedia_Conference_2018/Participants%27_List 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
--
*Raphael Berchie*
Co Founder Open Foundation, West Africa, Wikimedian
<https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Ghana>,Open Advocate, Climate
Change Activist,Blogger <http://rberchie.blogspot.com/>
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