John Vandenberg, 21/10/2010 12:30:
If history is anything to go by, a single issue
candidate is the best
chance that WMF will adjust its strategy to devote more energy towards
supporting the sister projects.
Have we ever had a single-issue trustee who achieved something?
I'd hoped that the strategy project would result
in board adoption of
proposals that focus on the sister projects. Despite the five year
plan not speaking directly about growing the sister projects and small
language projects, I'm hoping the board recognises that their
ambitious targets will only be realised if they embrace the untapped
opportunity for growth in the sister projects. If this doesn't
eventuate, I think we'll need to consider giving sister projects some
form of direct representation on the board. Maybe I was dreaming, but
I vaguely recall someone suggesting this on foundation-l.
It may be something to consider, but I think that it's easier so support
and participate in chapters.
Chapters are currently the only Wikimedia organizations who care about
sisterprojects and do something for them (especially biggest/oldest
ones; I would mention WM-DE, WMFr, WMI), and most likely the only chance
for the Wikimedia movement to do something for sisterproject within
a/the strategic plan.
Chapters members (and trustees) are often cross-project- and
meta-contributors, and viceversa; and people involved in chapters
usually have a broader view of the Wikimedia movement, i.e. they don't
think only about Wikipedia, so they're more interested in sisteprojects.
I think that Arne and Phoebe are good examples of this, and therefore
good WMF trustees for sisterprojects (as well as at least one community
elected WMF trustee, by the way).
Nemo
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