[Wikimedia-l] Info: Election for WCA Chairperson

[Ziko van Dijk]

Jan-Bart, what you call a 'membership model' is a democratically
established international NGO in which members have rights and obligations.
It operates under a charter accepted by the chapters that joined. Maybe you
would like to read the charter first, or think about the way the WMF (!)
approves new chapters, or consider to improve the democratic character of
the WMF before trying to undermine the WCA as such. I thought that we
agreed in London that many chapters did not join because they now busy with
other things.
Ziko


Am Montag, 25. Februar 2013 schrieb Fae :

> @Jan-Bart
> One of the early discussions before agreeing the WCA charter was the
> possibility of automatically counting all legally recognized chapters
> as members. It was felt that this would not result in a credible
> democratic process, indeed the current 21 members are not all very
> active in votes and the current voting pattern shows participation at
> around 2/3 of the members or less in any vote. If we counted all
> Chapters, then a quorum would have to be set to be artificially
> low.<
> http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Resolutions/2012_votes
> >
>
> Should any Chapter wish to vote in this election, they need only
> provide a statement to me and then the new Council member sends in a
> statement that they support the charter. The Council member need not
> be on the board of the Chapter. There are no fees, there are no
> specific duties and we are always looking for more light-weight ways
> of handing our processes. Any Council member recognized before the
> vote opens, will be eligible to vote.
>
> @Newyorkbrad
> My original thought was to allow an overall three week process, but
> was put under pressure to do this quickly to make a clear
> demonstration that I was going; however I would guess that opening the
> election does this rather than bringing forward the deadline to close
> it. I will take a look at the schedule again later today and
> reconsider the deadlines. In practice, I have had the opposite
> feedback from Council members, who thought that allowing 2 weeks for a
> vote as our past custom, was unnecessarily long.
>
> Thanks,
> Fae
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