2008/5/1, Milos Rancic millosh@gmail.com:
Proportional chapter seats would mean 2 Board members from WM DE :) -- which leads us to the same situation like we have with en.wp at the project level. BTW, while I would like to see some WM DE members into the Board, I would like to see in the Board people from some other chapters, too. I think that better idea is to find the best possible people from the chapters by reaching consensus in inter chapter coordination. And I am very sure that chapters are able to make the best possible choices.
That very much depends. Say, we are only taking the number of members into account, and 50 members = 1 vote (roundoff to above) then we get:
Agentina (50) - 1 Austria (?) - 1 Australia (?) - 1 Switzerland (64) - 2 Czech Republic (?) - 1 Germany (390) - 8 France (105) - 3 Hong Kong (?) - 1 Israel (12) - 1 Italy (168) - 4 Netherlands (80) - 2 Poland (62) - 2 Serbia (40) - 1 Sweden (116) - 3 Taiwan (30) - 1 United Kingdom (5) - 1
Total: 33
and definitely not two german seats :)
Please note that these data are coming from http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters and are generally outdated by months.
A measure by Financial turnover sounds dangerous to me as that would only enthusiast chapters to count everything as money, while the most work is done by volunteers generally. I prefer to think in terms of volunteers and activities over money.
BR, Lodewijk