Dear Bishakha,
could you please elaborate why the board has chosen for a secretive amendment procedure here, rather than sharing the proposed amendments with the community and asking their input on it? Especially where it concerns such non-trivial changes.
I hope that also other board members will share their view on this process, and why they didn't ask input of the community themselves. I would have expected such questions especially from those board members that were (s)elected by the community and/or the chapters. Do you consider such community discussions unwanted? Was there an exceptional legal threat that required these changes at short notice?
Kind regards, Lodewijk
2012/11/2 Federico Leva (Nemo) nemowiki@gmail.com
Just reiterating for the n-th time on this list that people would appreciate if you publicly shared draft bylaws amendments before approving them. The consistent lack of transparency in such fundamental decisions within the WMF is always astonishing.
After the fact, I'd appreciate a readable resolution or diff as both https://wikimediafoundation.**org/wiki/Resolution:Amended_**Bylawshttps://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution:Amended_Bylawsand < https://wikimediafoundation.**org/w/index.php?title=Bylaws&** diff=84853&oldid=84852https://wikimediafoundation.org/w/index.php?title=Bylaws&diff=84853&oldid=84852> are useless.
Nemo
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