Hoi, As there is this constant call for more paper work for chapters, it has to be understood that this is exactly what kills the productivity of chapters. There are always more people with their opinion why this that or the other is amiss. They all have their arguments why they think they are right and consequently contribute to the noise level that is already way too high.
If anything we should look for ways of appreciating the effect of chapters that does not make them beholden to every John Dick AND Harry and at the same time gives them equal space to move as effectively as the Wikimedia Foundation itself. Thanks, GerardM
On 23 November 2014 at 23:02, svetlana svetlana@fastmail.com.au wrote:
To clarify: I would like to see a more strong mechanism for review of Chapters work. This includes thorough feedback channels about how Chapters communicate, how they spend their funding. Including means to dissolve a Chapter if a large chunk of people believes it is not working well (such as, providing inadequate support to the Wikimedia movement).
This feedback channel is probably not here, but I feel this list could be an appropriate place to discuss how the above could be implemented.
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, at 08:28, svetlana wrote:
I disagree, the question raised is relevant to the Wikimedia movement as
a whole.
On Mon, 24 Nov 2014, at 02:37, Austin Hair wrote:
Fae,
Please do not drag this list into whatever trouble you've found yourself in on another. Wikimedia-l is neither a court of appeals for Wikimedia-related lists nor a bullhorn for your personal grievances.
Austin
On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 1:45 PM, Fæ faewik@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Darcy,
I am concerned at what appears to be deliberate suppression of questions raising governance related issues from the wikimedia UK email list. The email below is an example. The list was always intended to be independent of the UK chapter, though one of the moderators is one of your employees.
Could you please confirm that neither you, nor your employees, are manipulating this public list to your political advantage.
Thanks, Fae
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Fæ faewik@gmail.com Date: 18 November 2014 at 19:24 Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Welcome ro D'Arcy Myers To: UK Wikimedia mailing list wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Cc: geniice@gmail.com, Harry Mitchell hjmitchell@ymail.com
It would be nice to hear from the board how this was discussed before offering the interim position. After all, in the several interviews I took part in for WMUK staff, pretty much the first basic question was along the lines of 'have you ever edited Wikipedia?' as a way of assessing what the candidate knows about Wikimedia; so I can not believe this would come as a surprise considering how sensitive the board is on COI and its perception by our community.
Fae
On 18 November 2014 19:13, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 November 2014 18:55, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
[[user:Dcfmyers]] has no other edits.
whoops missed a couple of deleted ones 2 edits to [[George More
O'Ferrall]]. A direct copy and paste of
http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/527160/
In fairness copyright is a pretty blameless error for new editors
-- geni
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