The projects are the route by which content is added to Wikipedia. The purpose of
Wikipedia is not to have an organisation—the purpose is to have and distribute free
content. Everything else is superstructure—everything except the individual volunteers and
the projects. This superstructure can be important, but not essential — the volunteers are
capable of organising themselves and maintaining the projects. The foundation by itself is
capable of almost nothing, as it doesn’t add content. The chapters are of value, primarily
in recruiting contributors—without that, they’d just be social clubs.
The volunteers and the projects to which they add content are what matters. The three key
functions of the organisation are maintaining MediaWiki (but that’s a volunteer effort
also) in raising the small amount of essential funding, and the critically important
political work of supporting freedom of the internet and of speech more generally. But our
influence for this is because people in the world use the content the volunteers add to
the projects. The structure must be organised around them. We are here to build an
encyclopaedia.
On Jul 7, 2021, at 12:59 AM, Željko Blaće
<zblace(a)mi2.hr> wrote:
On Tuesday, July 6, 2021, Ciell Wikipedia <ciell.wikipedia(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you Bill, I always find organisation charts
very much enlightening, and have been missing something like it for the WMF for some time
now.
I feel the same. We need much much more of diagramatic content and higher level of
organizational understanding for all Wikimedia contributors.
I think all the departments of the WMF-side are
equal, right? For instance, legal has no higher 'status' then fundraising or
research: employees are equals, just with a different function in the
organisation.Therefore all the different departments should be presented in a horizontal
line, not a vertical one, like in this one for example.
Kind of good point, but maybe scale (same size) is enough to represent equals, rather
than direction/orientation? Not an expert.
BTW.
.svg file export would be best
for the posibility of translation
within Wikimedia Commons ;-)
Best, Z.
Vriendelijke groet,
Ciell
Op di 6 jul. 2021 om 01:03 schreef Bill Takatoshi <billtakatoshi(a)gmail.com>om>:
> Earlier today I tried to predict what the WMF org chart will look
> like, but I wasn't confident about my suggestion, so I created a new
> email account, subscribed it to wikimedia-l, and tried to send from
> there. I learned that new subscribers are moderated, which seems
> sensible given the level of trolling and disruption, and have since
> improved the prediction and become more confident about it. I have
> since learned that HTML email with embedded email attachments aren't
> allowed either, so, Moderators, please reject my earlier anonymous
> submission(s).
>
> This is what I predict the Wikimedia organizational chart will look
> like in one year's time:
>
>
https://i.ibb.co/HPzpqLt/WMF-orgchart.png
>
> Please critique it! If you are running for the Board of Directors, I
> am especially interested in your critique of this prediction.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -Will
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