It would be interesting to know if the people who participated in that
decision actually had the legal authority to make it. They might have, but
this would be worth further inquiry.
Pine
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:03 PM, SarahSV <sarahsv.wiki(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Adam Wight
<adam.m.wight(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Dear friends,
Recent events have made me curious to learn more about the Wikimedia
Foundation's origins and history as a membership organization. The
revelations about the Wikimedia Foundation Board elections being a
recommendation for appointment rather than a direct vote seem to have
been
a surprise to many of us, and almost ten years
after membership was
eliminated, we see strongly suggestive "directly elected" language still
being fixed on the Foundation's own Board elections page.[1]
Adam, thank you for starting this discussion. Eric Moeller announced to
the list
in December 2006 that the bylaws had been changed and that we were
no longer members, or as he said "
[
m
]
embership was previously described in the bylaws but not actually
implemented."
[1]
Sarah
1.
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2006-December/072001.html
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