[Foundation-l] Board restructuring and community

[Cary Bass]

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Domas Mituzas wrote:
| Hello,
|
| I have stated multiple time, that I'm non-contributing user of
| Wikipedia. It is quite unpopular here, I know.
| I could never vote in elections, unless exclusions were done ( I
| don't have 400 edits on any project  ).
| My English writing skills are satisfactory for technical
| communication, can get worse for various other prose and poems, and
| usually aligns with writing style of last book read. :)
|
I just had a thought.

There's another class of contributor--the office volunteer or intern.
These people often have no edits or very few, but have contributed in
ways such as scanning documents, sending out mail, or organizing Mike
Godwin's legal files :).

We've had people who have helped us who have wanted to help the mission
because they have enjoyed using our projects as a resource, but have not
contributed in any way in edit counts or SVN commits.  I believe that
some of the chapters also have individuals under this category.  Should
they be included despite the fact that they're not members of any one of
our numerous editing communities?

(Incedentally, we're fortunate to have help in the office at present who
have contributed to the wikis...but in the past, things have been
different.)

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Cary Bass
Volunteer Coordinator

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E-Mail: cary at wikimedia.org
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