[Foundation-l] Policy governance ends

[Birgitte SB]

The WMF provides the essential infrastructure and an
organizational framework for the support and
development of multilingual wiki projects.  Wikimedia
wikis must be able to technically adapt in an
individual manner to succeed.

Needs to be met?
Local extension requests must be evaluated by a
developer with the ability to implement them within
three months.

For whom? 
Wikimedia communities

At what cost?
Not sure; at the cost of other bugs I suppose.  On the
waiting side, three months seems like a long time to
find out if an extension is acceptable or needs more
work.  But if it is not realistic to people on the
developer side, please adjust to any set time period.


Birgitte SB


--- Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> In the past few days, I have explored more
> systematically the policy 
> governance model, and how it could be implemented.By
> the way, I found a 
> short article about it on the english wikipedia : 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_Governance
> 
> 
> One of the things the board has to design is what is
> called the ENDS.
> In each ends, the board defines which needs are to
> be met, for whom, and 
> at what cost.
> 
> Let me give you two examples of ends.
> *******************************
> 
> 
> The WMF is the host provider of several websites,
> referred to as 
> Wikimedia project.  Wikimedia websites must be up
> and running 
> efficiently, 24/24 hours, 7 days a week. That is the
> priority of WMF.
> 
> Needs to be met ?
> Information must be accessible anytime.
> 
> For whom ?
> Any person with internet access
> 
> At what cost ?
> Well, within limits reasonable with the revenue we
> have. If we had 
> figures to mention, we could say max 1 million per
> year.
> *******************************
> 
> 
> Another example
> 
> The WMF is the organiser of an annual conference,
> Wikimania.
> 
> Needs to be met ?
> Both a scientific conference and a community event,
> Wikimania brings 
> together members of various Wikimedia projects in
> order to exchange 
> ideas, build relationships, and report on research
> and project efforts.
> It also provides an opportunity for Wikimedians and
> the general public 
> alike to meet and share ideas about free and open
> source software, free 
> knowledge initiatives, and wiki projects worldwide.
> 
> For whom ?
> Primarily for Wikimedians. Secondarily for the
> general public
> 
> At what cost ?
> No cost. WMF should find sponsors to cover Wikimania
> costs by large.
> *******************************
> 
> Now, these are two easy ends to define.
> What I would like to ask you help on, is to define
> more ends, which 
> describe what you think the WMF is about. The two
> ends I mentionned 
> above a "long term" ends, they would be listed this
> year, and then next 
> year and probably the year after. Not all ends are
> this way. We could 
> also have an end valid only one year, or only 3
> months.
> Let us say we want a BIG technical meeting around
> Mediawiki to occur in 
> the next 6 months, it would be one END.
> Or we want to produce a DVD of the english high
> quality content, it 
> could be another END.
> Actually, hiring an ED could also be an end :-)
> 
> Now, before you tell me "eh, we elected you guys to
> think of that for 
> us", my answer will be "no, you elected us to
> represent your dreams 
> about WMF, and to make sure your dreams happen".
> So, what I am currently asking you is
> 
> "What do you want Wikimedia Foundation to focus its
> attention on in the 
> next few months, few years or more".
> 
> Whether you are members on the "paper" (bylaws) or
> not, morally, you are 
> the owners of the organization. I do not think the
> editors represent the 
> only owners, but the editors definitly are part of
> the owners. So, I ask 
> you your opinion as owners.
> 
> What do you think we should achieve ? If you had 5
> points to list, what 
> would they be ?
> 
> 
> ant
> 
> 
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