Hi Mike,
It's certainly not all -- or even most -- of them; as we've mentioned, this affects affiliates that are both non-compliant *and* unwilling or unable to return to compliance. We are, I think, quite forgiving of occasional compliance issues, such as late reports, so long as an affiliate is willing to resolve the issue in some reasonable manner.
It's also worth noting, incidentally, that the table on the reports page only tracks compliance with annual activity and financial reporting requirements, and not any other requirements that affiliates may be subject to under their agreements with the WMF.
We will be providing more details on the specific affiliates affected by this over the next several months, as the deadlines for them to resolve compliance issues pass. Please note that any affiliates potentially facing non-renewal that do successfully resolve their compliance issues will in fact be renewed, so we can't provide a definitive list at this time.
Regards, Kirill Lokshin Vice-Chair, Affiliations Committee
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 7:32 AM Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net wrote:
Hi Maor/Kirill/AffCom,
Which organisations are we talking about here? From the crosses on the reports page on Meta, it looks like it is:
- Wikimedia Chile
- Wikimedia Hong Kong
- Wikimedia India
- Wikimedia Macedonia
- Wikimedia Macau
- Wikimedia Mexico
- Wikimedia Philippines
- Wikimedia Uruguay
- New England Wikimedians
- PhilWiki Community
- Wikimedia Community User Group Pakistan
- Wikimedia Digitization User Group
- Wikimedians of Iceland User Group
- Wikimedians of Nepal
- Wikimedians of Uzbekistan Community
Is it all of those or a subset of them? Some of these seem to be active and/or have representatives going to the Wikimedia Conference.
Thanks, Mike
On 5 Feb 2017, at 10:13, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com
wrote:
Hi Nathan,
To expand a bit on Maor's reply: the Affiliations Committee and the Wikimedia Foundation continue to view affiliate de-recognition as a last resort for cases where an affiliate is not only in violation of affiliate requirements or agreements with the WMF, but is also unwilling or unable
to
fix the problem when asked to do so.
The underlying issue that causes an affiliate to be "non-compliant" will usually be publicly visible (such as a lack of required reporting, for example). The affiliate's inability or unwillingness to address it will usually not be, as it's reflected in the affiliate's communications with AffCom and the WMF (or lack thereof).
Regards, Kirill Lokshin Vice-Chair, Affiliations Committee
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 6:33 AM Nathan nawrich@gmail.com wrote:
On Sun, Feb 5, 2017 at 4:22 AM, Gerard Meijssen <
gerard.meijssen@gmail.com
wrote:
Hoi, I fail to see who you are targeting and on what basis. My impression is that it only has to do with money.. I understand this. For other parts
like
the language committee there are no reports except for the activity on
its
mailing list. I fail to see why it has to report to anyone. It is not
the
task the committee seeks and it does its activity on behalf of the Wikimedia board. Thanks, GerardM
You misread - evidently both the original message and my reply. I answer your question in my prior post, and hopefully subsequent posts by others have cleared up any other confusion.
Maor - thank you for your explanation. Would it be fair to say that the criteria for considering denying renewal are informal, and that some factors (including communication with AffCom) may not be publicly
available
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