Greetings

I can not wait to see how history of "current days" related to the "Wikimedia Summit, last modifications to the Wikimedia Movement Charter proposition, and voting period" will be dealt with in 18 years in the future. It promises to be stimulating.

In any cases, interesting "return in the past" Adam.

The initial bylaws were **extremely poorly made** and fully mis-adapted to our context. Anyone reading Article III would realize that. I am not impressed by the lawyer who wrote them, he did not do us a favor (not naming names on purpose)

Flo

Chris Keating <chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com> schrieb am Do. 27. Juni 2024 um 12:21:

When the WMF was set up, those involved chose not to make it a membership organisation.

Greetings!  I will emerge from the shadows to point out that WMF was originally incorporated as a membership organization, with criteria for membership, public pages about membership and discussions about how to implement the details.  However, its articles of incorporation were later changed under very likely illegal circumstances (through a vote made without informing their membership).  It's very possible that the many original members still have the standing to remedy this unfortunate situation of a self-appointing Board—if they can organize such a push.

The long story: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_membership_controversy

Regards,
[[mw:User:Adamw]]

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