[Foundation-l] Call for nominations: chapter-appointed seats on the WMF Board of Trustees

[Thomas Dalton]

On 3 February 2012 14:13, Yaroslav M. Blanter <putevod at mccme.ru> wrote:
> Not that I disagree, but I think this invites us to think what actual role
> the chapters have. Indeed, my impression (which might be wrong since I have
> never performed any statistical analysis) is that the majority of the
> chapter board members (and, for this purpose, the majority of participants
> of this mailing list) are somewhat disentangled from the editing process -
> at least often I check their contribution on their home page I find a
> laughable amount of edits in the article namespace, for instance, a
> two-digit amount per year. (I know there are exceptions). I remember some
> time ago it was a discussion of the threshold for voters at the community
> Board elections with the main idea that it is sometimes difficult to people
> included in governance to have 50 edits in half a year, even if the edits
> made after the announcement are accepted. I understand that many chapter
> boards members are just busy with other things, I know they are often
> administrators and have a lot of contributions in the Wikipedia namespace
> for instance, I understand that the task of chapter boards is not writing
> articles, and I do not want to accuse anybody - but still, is this exactly
> what we had in mind when chapters were created?

I think it is inevitable that people involved in other aspects of the
movement won't be as involved in editing. I don't see a problem with
that.