[Wikimedia-l] Are chapters part of the community and board seats for affiliates?

[Christophe Henner]

On 19 February 2013 15:32, Thehelpfulone <thehelpfulonewiki at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 19 February 2013 13:48, Bence Damokos <bdamokos at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > To be perfectly fair, all the nominations for the 2012 selection were
> > public, so this was less of a problem than in 2010 when they were not
> > published.
> >
>
>
> Whilst this is true, is there a good reason as to why much of the
> discussion for chapter-elected board seats happens in private? Looking at
> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/2012/Processit
> appears chapter discussion happens on a private chapters wiki and
> chapters-l, a mailing list restricted to only current board members
> of chapters, during which time candidates lose their access to that
> wiki/mailing list but presumably gain access to it afterwards. Unless all
> the discussions are deleted, what is the benefit of having these
> discussions in private, especially if the candidates will see what was said
> about them after the election?
>
> I understand why we use private voting through SecurePoll for the
> "community" elections but please could someone explain what I'm missing
> with regards to Chapter selected seats?
>
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Hmmm I might be mistaken but WMF board members, selected or not by
chapters, haven't access to chapter-l. But I might be mistaken on that.

--
Christophe