[Foundation-l] on (re)organizing wikimedia

[Nathan Carter]

I have quite a large number of opinions on this.
There needs to be an executive in place with the subcommittees which can 
act relatively autonomously but are responsible to the executive. At the 
same time I would like to see us have Wikicouncil, where people from the 
projects meet to discuss them and issues arising out of them.

Wikicouncil would then have someone who reported back to the executive 
and again be responsible to them.

The fact is, Joe and Joanne editor couldn't really care less how the 
organisation is ran so long as everything works. The organisation needs 
to be ran by experts with a small amount of accountability to the user 
base (which I feel Wikicouncil would achieve)
Cheers,
Nathan

oscar wrote:

>hi all,
>
>i would like to share with you some thoughts on (re)organization.
>i read that there are plans to put a ceo in place to take care of executive
>responsibilities. executive responsibilities are very different from those
>of responsible wikians within the projects. so far these things have not
>been separated at all, that is understandable for a young and growing
>organization, but such cannot last or work well forever.
>
>in my opinion:
>1. the only way this organization, its projects and mission, its vitality
>and appeal, will survive will be if a strict separation be implemented
>between volunteer-work, executive tasks and their respective supervision.
>2. separation of executive and project-related responsibilities by
>installing an elected council of representatives from the projects is
>mandatory.
>3. the task of an appointed board should be supervising the work of the
>executives, it should be a type of board consisting of very professional
>people (the kind which in a way of speaking should have "better things to
>do", if you get my meaning), and in general not deal with the projects at
>all.
>4. the council of representatives should supervise the projects, advise the
>executive level, and in general not deal with the board at all.
>
>i could be more elaborate in explaining the rationale behind these thoughts,
>but i chose to keep things concise. note however, that i spoke of how
>specific tasks, responsibilities and work can be organized, avoiding the
>who-does-what, which is not of my concern now.
>also these things should definitely not be mixed up.
>
>for what it's worth these are my two euros ;-)
>
>oscar
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