[Foundation-l] Volunteer Council - A shot for a resolution

[Birgitte SB]

Have you read the mission lately?  

"The mission of the Wikimedia Foundation is to empower
and engage people around the world to collect and
develop educational content under a free license or in
the public domain, and to disseminate it effectively
and globally.

In collaboration with a network of chapters, the
Foundation provides the essential infrastructure and
**an organizational framework for the support and
development of multilingual wiki projects and other
endeavors which serve this mission. **

The Foundation will make and keep useful information
from its projects available on the Internet free of
charge, in perpetuity." (emphasis mine)

How do you propose supporting and delveloping  "wiki
projects" without community building? Hire people to
edit the wikis?

Birgitte SB

--- Nathan <nawrich at gmail.com> wrote:

> My concern with this is that the Foundation has a
> specific mission, and it
> isn't to be an experiment in community building and
> governance. Is there a
> direct connection between establishing councils,
> advisory groups, committees
> etc. and improving the encyclopedia? Is the
> contention that the
> "under-representation" of the community on the Board
> (which I don't agree is
> actually the case) damages the Foundation's progress
> towards achieving its
> overarching goals?
> 
> Nathan
> _______________________________________________
> foundation-l mailing list
> foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org
> Unsubscribe:
>
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
> 



      ____________________________________________________________________________________
Looking for last minute shopping deals?  
Find them fast with Yahoo! Search.  http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping