As you know, the Wikimedia Foundation elections is approaching. As always, the voters will be the community, developers, current board member and.. WMF staff and contractors. Nothing changed. same as two years ago.
But I wonder - we had this policy when the chapters and others recognized Wikimedia organization doesn't been really part of the equation.
Yes, many of the chapters board and staff are community members and have the right the vote - but this is also the case with many of the WMF employees, but still we giving some of them the right to vote even if they hardly ever edit on the projects. But we not giving the same right to our's board and chapters staff, who are also part of the movement.
I'm raising this issue, and asking if should chapter (and thematic organization) staff and board members should be granted the right to vote in the movement elections, in the same way as Foundation staff and board members have right now? To me it's making sense.
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