As for process.. While I appreciate that this time, the change was at least
announced before the vote, and that some board members at least engaged in
some conversation - I have yet to see how this was taken into consideration
by the board as a whole. It feels like the board already made up its mind.
What is surprising me most, is that it took a month for this announcement
to be made - especially considering a time sensitive process being impacted
by this decision. Or did I miss a more timely announcement elsewhere?
Best,
Lodewijk
On Wed, Feb 20, 2019 at 3:19 AM Santiago Navarro <
santiagonavarro(a)wikimedia.es> wrote:
In fact, I did not participate in the discussion page
on meta about
that, because I guessed that my opinion would not be taken in account,
neither discussed, and now it seems that, sadly, I was right in that
thought.
El 2019-02-19 17:25, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel escribió:
Antanana and the board,
I find it sad and disappointing that after such a long conversation on
the
talk page, there wasn't any comment on the talk page or in this
statement
about the problem of double voting by many UG's members. Did the board
even
discuss that or we just wasted our time giving feedback on it?
Ensuring equality in voting is the basis for every democracy and is
trampled here completely without any comment from the board about how
to
ensure it.
*Itzik Edri*
Chairperson
itzik(a)wikimedia.org.il
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On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 5:18 PM Nataliia Tymkiv <ntymkiv(a)wikimedia.org>
wrote:
> Hello all!
>
> The Wikimedia Foundation Board has unanimously approved the changes to
> the
> Bylaws [1] during the last Board meeting on January 30, 2019. This
> will be
> covered in the minutes, and the resolution will be published in short
> order.
>
> This change allows the participation of User Groups [2] in the
> Affiliate-selected Board seats (ASBS) 2019 process [3]. The
> discussion
> about this process should start as soon as possible in order to have
> these
> two seats selected by Wikimania. This is why we are sending this
> letter
> now, before the resolution is published.
>
> There are now over 100 recognized User Groups, covering over 50
> countries,
> several languages and topics, many of whom represent new and emergent
> communities within the Wikimedia movement. The Board believes that the
> added perspectives of the User Groups, combined with the voices of
> Chapters
> and Thematic Organizations, will lead to a richer collection of
> guidance
> for our movement. The conversation about how User Groups may
> participate in
> this process has been on for years, it is not a new topic [4].
>
> Once the facilitators of the Selection process are appointed by the
> affiliates, they should work with María Sefidari, who has been chosen
> by
> the Board as the Board liaison for the ASBS process.
>
> Given the potential complexity of organizing a process that now will
> include over a hundred user groups, the Wikimedia Foundation is
> offering
> its support to set up infrastructure and help with communications if
> requested by the affiliates.
>
> A page for translation can be found at:
>
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats/2019/Wikimed…
>
> On behalf of the Board
>
> antanana / Nataliia Tymkiv
>
> Chair of the Board Governance Committee
>
> [1]
>
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws/December_2018_-…
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws/January_2014_-_…
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