Hello! The Advisory Board (AB) and its role was indeed among the BGC
priorities for this year [1]. And I have been working with the former AB
members on a concept for how the AB’s work should be organized. The concept
they came up though needs to be clarified and improved, especially on how
the AB internal coordination will be organized [2]. The group will work on
this with minimal overhead from the Board of Trustees and without
staff/budget support at first. The BGC believes that the AB can be used as
a practical path for prospective members of the Board Board of Trustees,
and to formalize relationships between high-profile experts, and staff and
the Board members. We shall answer with more details soon.
We have not made any announcements, as we're in the process, which I ope is
understandable - there is no formal constitution of the body yet.
Dariusz & Nat
[1]
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 6:49 PM, Rogol Domedonfors <domedonfors(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Craig
Thanks for your thoughtful response. There are two gneral issues around
the Advisory Board that members of the Community might be interested in.
Firstly, it seems that after having lapsed in 2015, the Advisory Board has
been reconstituted, but there has been no announcement to the Community,
and indeed the Community was given no opportunity to engage with the
process of reconstitution (for example, by way of suggesting new members or
new processes). In particular, we in the Community do not know who the new
Advisory Board members are, or what the new remit of the Advisory Board is,
or whether and how to engage with those members.
Secondly, as a consequence there are no established channels for engagement
between the Advisory Board and the Community. As a member of the new
Avdvisory Board, you may wish to encourage your colleagues to establish
appropriate opportunities and rules of engagement for yourself and your
fellow members to engage with the Community.
You mentioned "tradtions". I am sorry to say that my personal view is that
the relationship between the Board of Trustees and the wider Foundation on
the one hand and the Community of contributors and consumers on the other
has "traditionally" been less than satisfctory. I hope that this is one
tradition that your advice will be helpful in overturning.
"Rogol"
On Sun, Jun 25, 2017 at 4:43 PM, Craig Newmark <craig.newmark(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Rogol, I'm on the advisory board, and
actively involved in related
issues,
but have hesitated posting in respect for
Community traditions (as I
learn
them) and also, as a large effort emerges in
journalism regarding
reliable
sources.
Specifically, the latter involves the News Integrity Initiative centered
at
the City University of NY, graduate journalism
department.
That's to say, I hesitate until I learn the respectful way to talk about
this, and until the NII has a lot more to say.
Additional constraint per the ethics of funding nonprofit journalism, per
the American Press Institute: when I say something, I need to be
transparent while also Doing No Harm. (The latter is surprisingly
difficult.) To that effect, I gotta disclose that I provide significant
funding to the NII as well as WMF.
I'd appreciate your advice, and that of anyone interested in this
subject.
Thanks!
Craig Newmark, founder craigslist
On Sat, Jun 24, 2017 at 7:10 AM, Rogol Domedonfors <
domedonfors(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> This Board was fomed in 2007 to advise the Wikimedia Foundation, and
was
required
to be renewed annually. No resolution was made to do so in
2015,
so by the beginning of 2016 it had lapsed. This
status is reflected at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Advisory_Board but the corresponding
page
> at
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Advisory_Board is seriously
out
of
> date (it was written when the board was still in existence). Just
about
a
> year ago, Dariusz assured me that "it is one of the BGC's priorities to
> revise and re-ignite the Advisory Board" and indeed the BGC minutes for
> April published a couple of days ago at
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_
> Board_Governance_Committee/Minutes_13-04-2017
> show that the BGC took a paper (not made public) from Dariusz on the
> subject and agreed to "submit a formal proposal to the Board". No
Board
> resoultion on the subject has yet been
published.
>
> Rather confusingly, shortly after the BGC meeting, Florence wrote a
page
>
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_
> movement/2017/Sources/WMF_Advisory_board
> recording the Advisory Board's opinions on matters arising in the
current
movement
strategy process. So it would seem that within a fortnight of
the
> BGC meeting, an entity called the Advisory Board was already in
existence
again.
What is the status of the Avisory Board? Has it been reconstiuted, and
if
> so, when, and who are its new members? If it has not been
reconstituted,
> what is the status of Florence's record?
If and when the Advisory
Board
is
reconstituted, will input from the Community for
potential members be
welcome, and if so how will it be gathered? Once the Board is in
operation
again, is it expected that it will interact with
the Community, and if
so,
what will the mechanism be for that interaction.
"Rogol"
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kierownik katedry Zarządzania Międzynarodowego
i grupy badawczej NeRDS
Akademia Leona Koźmińskiego
Wyszła pierwsza na świecie etnografia Wikipedii "Common Knowledge? An
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autorstwa (Dorothy Lee Award 2015, Nagroda Naukowa Prezesa PAN 2016)