You're misunderstanding; I'm saying the Board of Trustees nominations
happening on the chapters wiki is open merely to the representatives of
chapters, not to the thousands of members apparently taking part. Please do
list those chapters who have an internal vote of the membership before
voting on the Chapter Representatives for the Board of Trustees; I would
imagine it's going to be *rather* small, particularly if you're not
actually allowed to tell your members who is running or anything about them.
On 1 February 2012 23:40, Theo10011 <de10011(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Oliver Keyes
<okeyes(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
No; it's open to several chapters. If
you're planning on holding the
process in private, it's in no way open to thousands of members - it's
open
to representatives of thousands of members who
were not, I would wager,
selected because of their opinions on wider movement governance.
What?
Chapters by definition have to have a board, and be open to membership. The
decision taken by the board and representatives, is usually vetted
internally, it is representative of the entire chapter; as much as the
community elected members are representative of the entire community,
beyond just the individuals that voted. The community elected members
aren't called, the community-who-voted board members.
Regards
Theo
(personal opinion, etc)
On 1 February 2012 23:17, Theo10011 <de10011(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 2, 2012 at 4:06 AM, Risker <risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > In what way do chapter-selected seats improve the running of the WMF,
> > Thomas? The Board has no say in who is being selected, and there is
no
> > basis in fact to say that those
appointed by the chapters are any
more
>
effective or helpful in meeting the Board's goals or running the WMF
than
> > would community-elected Wikimedians.
>
>
> Risker, you know the point applies to appointed members of the board as
> well. They are selected through even a more private process for
seemingly
> unlimited terms, they make up the other half
of the board. I am
surprised
why
questions about their interest and representation aren't raised on
every new appointment?
The chapter selected member, at least go through a vetting and a voting
process that is open to several chapters and thousand of members.
Regards
Theo
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