Le 24/06/2017 à 13:10, Rogol Domedonfors a écrit :
This Board was fomed in 2007 to advise the Wikimedia Foundation, and was required to be renewed annually. No resolution was made to do so in 2015, so by the beginning of 2016 it had lapsed. This status is reflected at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Board but the corresponding page at https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board is seriously out of date (it was written when the board was still in existence). Just about a year ago, Dariusz assured me that "it is one of the BGC's priorities to revise and re-ignite the Advisory Board" and indeed the BGC minutes for April published a couple of days ago at https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_Governance_Commit... show that the BGC took a paper (not made public) from Dariusz on the subject and agreed to "submit a formal proposal to the Board". No Board resoultion on the subject has yet been published.
Rather confusingly, shortly after the BGC meeting, Florence wrote a page https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2017/Sources/WMF... recording the Advisory Board's opinions on matters arising in the current movement strategy process. So it would seem that within a fortnight of the BGC meeting, an entity called the Advisory Board was already in existence again.
What is the status of the Avisory Board? Has it been reconstiuted, and if so, when, and who are its new members? If it has not been reconstituted, what is the status of Florence's record? If and when the Advisory Board is reconstituted, will input from the Community for potential members be welcome, and if so how will it be gathered? Once the Board is in operation again, is it expected that it will interact with the Community, and if so, what will the mechanism be for that interaction.
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I was asked to help with the strategy discussion design at the end of 2016. When the strategy discussions were effectively launched, I thought it made sense to actually ask their feedback to advisory board members. It does not really (in my view) what the current administrative status of the advboard is, there are wise people out there and it made sense to ask them for their opinion. Practically speaking, I could not pursue the talks very far (in particular in the second phase) due to multiple personal issues that really impaired my available time recently. But I think it simply made sense to get them involve, aware of the strategic process ongoing and inform them enough that they can jump in if needed.
I have no further comment to make on the Adv Board (it is not to hide anything. It simply is that I have no further comment to make).
Florence