I find the WMF staff who I interact with to be an inspiration to me with
their dedication to the mission to the global wikimedia movement.
Perhaps the reason that many of them are not volunteering as on site
contributors is because they are too busy with a day job that is solely
focused on the mission of the movement.
I fully support allowing our talented and dedicated WMF staff to have the
opportunity to choose the people who guide the direction of the WMF.
Sydney
Sydney Poore
User:FloNight
Wikipedian in Residence
at Cochrane Collaboration
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Bohdan Melnychuk <base-w(a)yandex.ru> wrote:
I don't see why employees (no diff whether
it's about WMF or affiliates)
who are not also volunteers should have the vote right. It's up to
Wikimedia movement to chose it's lead. The non-volunteering employees are
outsiders who are just hired to do some stuff for us since we tend to be
lazy. If they want to influence community's way they must become part of
the community. They have a choice of who's their boss - if they don't like
boss in WMF they could go look for another job. --Base
22.04.2015, 18:10, "Leigh Thelmadatter" <osamadre(a)hotmail.com>om>:
+1
> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 10:51:25 -0400
> From: aleksey.bilogur(a)gmail.com
> To: wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections
>
> My two cents: no, no, no, absolutely not, by all means no, never.
>
> I am strongly, strongly, strongly opposed to such a move. The chapters
> already elect two members of the Board, and that's quite enough. When
it
> comes to matters concerning strategic
direction chapters are the
movement
> equivalent of a political interest group.
The Board is the entity
> ultimately responsible for the funding reigns, and I strongly suspect
that
> such a move, *especially given the weakness
of community response in
> elections*, would immediately result in an influx of "chapter junkies"
who
> will vote as a nearly-united political bloc
for whatever candidate
promises
a freer
flow of money.
The ramifications would be immediate. This is absolutely the wrongest
possible direction to go in.
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