2016-04-05 1:57 GMT+02:00 Risker risker.wp@gmail.com:
Hmm. Ironically, it is standard for even non-member charities and non-profits in much of the world to have fully-voting members of the Audit Committee who are not members of the Board of Trustees/Directors. It is unfortunate that the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees has not yet come around to this idea.
Hi Anne,
The Foundation has come around that idea in 2006/2007 until 2012. [1] In that period is full voting member of the Audit Committee, later joined by a few others. On October 26nd, 2012 the Board passed a resolution to change the charter of the Audit Committee. [2] Among other things, outsiders in the committee lost their voting rights. That is something that happened after I left the Audit Committee. I don't know why the voting rights where removed.
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[1]: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Audit_Committee/Members [2]: https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Audit_Committee_charter&am...