On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 11:39 AM, Adam Wight adam.m.wight@gmail.com wrote:
Dear friends,
Recent events have made me curious to learn more about the Wikimedia Foundation's origins and history as a membership organization. The revelations about the Wikimedia Foundation Board elections being a recommendation for appointment rather than a direct vote seem to have been a surprise to many of us, and almost ten years after membership was eliminated, we see strongly suggestive "directly elected" language still being fixed on the Foundation's own Board elections page.[1]
Adam, thank you for starting this discussion. Eric Moeller announced to
the list in December 2006 that the bylaws had been changed and that we were no longer members, or as he said " [ m ] embership was previously described in the bylaws but not actually implemented." [1]
Sarah
1. https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2006-December/072001.html