Thank you Phoebe for changing the subject...
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Risker
<risker.wp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> Two board members (20% of the board) are elected by a tiny number of
> representatives of chapters (the chapter representative election process is
> very opaque). I can't find any numbers that confirm exactly how many people
> belong to chapters, and whether or not all of their members would otherwise
> meet the definition of "community member", but it is widely acknowledged
> that only a small percentage of Wikimedians (i.e., those who would meet the
> definition of "community member") are members of chapters.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters#Existing_chapters :
chapters have 2137+ members.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Results/en : 2940
valid ballots.
Anyway, this is the wrong question: the right question is, if chapters
are able to select good WMF board members, with the disclaimer that as
Phoebe said we are only at the second round.
Risker, 21/10/2010 07:29:
I've looked around both the WMF wiki and Meta, and
can't actually
find any
documentation of the process by which the chapters
elected their two
representatives. Does anyone have a link to where I might be able to
read
it?
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/Process
This is linked by the navigational templated and was linked several
times on foundation-l...
Nemo
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