[Foundation-l] Movement roles letter, Feb 2012

[Ziko van Dijk]

Hello,

I am afraid that the letter takes over the "results" of the MR group
that where presented at Wikimania 2011. There nobody, as far as I
remember, who was enthousiast about those results. My board colleague
Marco, for example, was stunned that the MR group thought that the
International Olympic Committee were a great model for us because of
its transparency (!).

The wordings were unsatisfying, and we couldn't make up much of the
proposed "charter" text. On the talk page I later commented that the
WMF should call for a new group. I would like to interpret this new
letter as an invitation to think about entities and its names again.

It would be nice if the expressions could be more self-explanitory,
and if we had more information about what these new entities will be
for. What problems will be solved by establishing them, what problems
could emerge etc.

Kind regards
Ziko


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Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland
dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter
http://wmnederland.nl/
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