Message: 2 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2012 14:03:55 +0200 From: phoebe ayers phoebe.wiki@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: [Foundation-l] resolution on voting transparency Message-ID: <CAAi3vqFXi9tPrkD9LUQPT6uqpe+d6MNhiOMv027SDX+QeykZ=Q@mail.gmail.com
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During the Board of Trustees meeting today we passed a resolution on Trustee voting transparency:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Board_of_Trustees_Voting_Tran...
asking that in future resolutions we publish the names of trustees with their votes for each resolution.
best, Phoebe
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That's a very welcome move, and I hope it helps build bridges back to the community. From time to time we will have very divisive issues to discuss, and in such situations it is much easier for the "losing" side in the community if they can see that their voice was heard on the board, as opposed to the board appearing to make a monolithic decision. In the current arrangements it can sometimes seem that the community is divided and the board is on one side of that divide. It will be much healthier for the movement if the board takes a majority decision in scenarios where the community is divided.
Sometimes it may even be worthwhile to record why the board minority dissented.
Regards
WereSpielChequers