Seconding Béria here - by common sense, a group called
the "Wikimedia
Chapters Association" would represent the Wikimedia chapters. If it only
exists to represent "Wikimedia chapters that sign on to ideas X and Y, and
pledge Z, and attend meeting Q", then the name ought to be more
representative of that - "Biggest Wikimedia Chapters Association", or
"Wikimedia Europe", or "Wikimedia Chapter Politics Interest
Group"...
-Fluffernutter
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Béria Lima <berialima(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Well, since the WCA don't plan to represent
all the chapters, it would be
good it changed the name to a more suitable representation of the truth
(that would be something like "European Chapters Association" based on the
people present in the last
meeting<
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Meetings/2013…
)
to avoid confusion.
_____
*Béria Lima*
*Imagine um mundo onde é dada a qualquer pessoa a possibilidade de ter
livre acesso ao somatório de todo o conhecimento humano. Ajude-nos a
construir esse sonho. <http://wikimedia.pt/Donativos>*
On 25 February 2013 12:21, Dariusz Jemielniak <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl> wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Nathan
<nawrich(a)gmail.com> wrote:
The model of voting delegates the casting of
votes to members of the
council; which are individuals, chosen by chapters. Purely from a
practical perspective, it may not be possible for chapters to get
council members in order by the deadline for this vote if they are not
already members. Additionally, it's important to distinguish in voting
between chapters abstaining and chapters simply not participating.
Choosing to be a member, while not exercising a vote, is effectively
assent to the outcome. This is not the case for those chapters which
have chosen not to join the WCA.
while I agree that in principle WCA should serve the large Wikimedia
community and its impact should definitely not be limited to members
only,
I believe it is quite dangerous from the point of
view of governance to
separate membership from voting rights. Although it could make perfect
sense to accept non-member chapter functionaries as candidates for the
board/chair/etc., the very right to vote should be reserved to those who
opt-in. Otherwise the chain of responsibility gets fuzzy, plus what
Nathan
wrote.
best,
dariusz
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