Perhaps we could stick to facts?
In the very recent case of Arnnon Geshuri, the WMF board of trustees proved themselves to be completely out of touch with the community.[1][2] 314 Wikimedians took part in the vote of no confidence, hardly just "malcontents", and 95% of those that took part voted directly against the stated position of the board, who still remain happy with their decision to keep Geshuri as trustee, and have not apologized or even changed a single part of their governance processes, despite vague unmeasurable offers to look into it.
With regard to "[the WMF board] delivering services that are of a high quality", all the metrics that the WMF report show the opposite. The WMF consistently fail to meet the performance targets they set for themselves, as you can see from the most recent quarterly report, they "missed", i.e. "failed", 35% of all their objectives.[3] In the Retail & Telecoms businesses I have worked in, a pattern of poor performance like this would see speedy major investment in change and improvement, including major changes at the board level.
It is an easy and lazy response to shout down objections by deriding everyone that has a complaint a malcontent or a troll. However after a few years of the WMF board failing to improve their self-governance or transparency, it's time to actually change things rather than accepting soft soap and political position statements that hold nobody to account.
Links 1. https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_comment/Vote_of_no_confidence_o... 2. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35411208 3. https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Wikimedia_Foundation_Quart...
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On 2 May 2016 at 06:58, Gerard Meijssen gerard.meijssen@gmail.com wrote:
Hoi, The most important thing about the board and the WMF is that they enable what we do. The dependence on them delivering services that are of a high quality is something they deliver. At the same time there is a coterie of "Wikipedians" that want to remake the WMF in their own image. They have proven not to be interested in our projects really. They have been challenged to consider practical things that will deliver much better quality for Wikipedia but it proved not to be what they are interested in.
Arguably there is a crisis. But the crisis has less to do with the WMF than with some in the community. They call themselves the community. IMHO they are malcontents; they have no agenda but single issues that will not help us achieve what the WMF is about. Thanks, GerardM
On 1 May 2016 at 23:36, Rogol Domedonfors domedonfors@gmail.com wrote:
It seems that the engagement between the Board and the Community has broken down, to the point that there may be a crisis of confidence developing. Perhaps members of this list would care to express their views at
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