On 6/3/06, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/4/06, Anthony DiPierro wikilegal@inbox.org wrote:
Is there an archive somewhere of all the historical board votes? I'd be interested in seeing it.
Overall, it's really hard to find information about what it is the board and its members have been doing.
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolutions
Watching that wiki, and reading Wikizine ( http://cur.wikizine.org/ ) are two good ways of keeping up with the Board's actions. Suggestions on how to improve communications are very welcome.
Angela
I'm trying to think of a major thing that I can suggest, rather than nitpicking minor details. Overall, wikimediafoundation.org is very outdated. Even just looking at the front page the quarterly reports contain nothing from the current year (5 months into it), the projects section starts with a red link, the second feature talks about the Quarto which is a project which was abandoned over a year ago.
One of the higher pageranked pages is http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings, which contains no information about meetings in 2006. One of the meetings I stubled across, http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Meetings/October_22%2C_2004, talks about changing membership from opt-out to opt-in. This doesn't seem to have been implemented, and I'm not actually sure whether or not I'm even a member. http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Bylaws points to http://wikimediafoundation.org/bylaws.pdf, which seems to be the original bylaws from 2003 (which have apparently changed). http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws is another version, which seems to have been updated, but it doesn't seem to have taken all resolutions into account (besides the opt-in/opt-out one, I remember reading from you or Ant that the notion of "Member Representative to the Board of Trustees" had been dropped). (Interestingly, http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/About_Wikimedia points to *both* versions.)
Anyway, thanks for the links. I guess my "suggestions" were somewhat nitpicky. But I do think it's pretty important that people know a) whether or not they're actually a member of Wikimedia and b) what the bylaws of the foundation are.
Anthony