I find the WMF staff who I interact with to be an inspiration to me with their dedication to the mission to the global wikimedia movement.
Perhaps the reason that many of them are not volunteering as on site contributors is because they are too busy with a day job that is solely focused on the mission of the movement.
I fully support allowing our talented and dedicated WMF staff to have the opportunity to choose the people who guide the direction of the WMF.
Sydney
Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration
On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Bohdan Melnychuk base-w@yandex.ru wrote:
I don't see why employees (no diff whether it's about WMF or affiliates) who are not also volunteers should have the vote right. It's up to Wikimedia movement to chose it's lead. The non-volunteering employees are outsiders who are just hired to do some stuff for us since we tend to be lazy. If they want to influence community's way they must become part of the community. They have a choice of who's their boss - if they don't like boss in WMF they could go look for another job. --Base
22.04.2015, 18:10, "Leigh Thelmadatter" osamadre@hotmail.com:
+1
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 10:51:25 -0400 From: aleksey.bilogur@gmail.com To: wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections
My two cents: no, no, no, absolutely not, by all means no, never.
I am strongly, strongly, strongly opposed to such a move. The chapters already elect two members of the Board, and that's quite enough. When
it
comes to matters concerning strategic direction chapters are the
movement
equivalent of a political interest group. The Board is the entity ultimately responsible for the funding reigns, and I strongly suspect
that
such a move, *especially given the weakness of community response in elections*, would immediately result in an influx of "chapter junkies"
who
will vote as a nearly-united political bloc for whatever candidate
promises
a freer flow of money.
The ramifications would be immediate. This is absolutely the wrongest possible direction to go in.
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