Hoi,
When we push people out that are not active and replace them with people
who add value, I am happy to see this happen.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 9 February 2017 at 17:00, Milos Rancic <[email protected]> wrote:
> One issue: membership.
>
> == Membership ==
>
> * Accepting any new member would still require consensus of those who
> expressed their opinion. (Nothing has changed.)
>
> * LangCom members should read messages in a timely fashion (at least
> twice per week), and to contribute on such decisions, where
> appropriate, within the deadline, or otherwise presumably at least
> once per month (this could be a simple +1). Lapses in participation
> would result in a "warning" after three months, and revocation of
> membership after six. (Note: This is actual proposal for the policy
> change!)
>
> * At this moment of time we have 17 members. One of them has very
> specific role (Zadiak, Wikiversity). I don't remember if I heard at
> all three of them. Five of them are quite quiet during the last few
> years.
>
> While it's good to create a general limit of 10-15 members, I think it
> is not useful at the moment, as we don't have all necessary expertise
> inside of the committee. However, on the long run, we could limit
> accepting new members from already covered areas.
>
> In relation to Wikimedia and computers in general we are pretty strong
> and I see no reason to increase the number of LangCom members based on
> those types of expertise.
>
> However, we lack in expertise and connections related to, most
> importantly, South (and Central) America and Southeast Asia (including
> Austronesian languages). It would be good to have somebody for the
> languages of New Guinea (~1500 of them).
>
> I would also like to see a little bit of ethnnolinguistic diversity
> inside of the committee. At the moment we are 16/17 native
> Indo-European speakers and just two members are not of European
> ancestry. In other words, I think another African member should be
> welcome, as well.
>
> My proposal (so, please, comment this paragraph if you don't agree or
> you want to make addition or change!) is to publish on wikimedia-l
> that we are searching for three member profiles, which should be,
> ideally, similar to Oliver: (1) A Wikimedian and expert in South and
> Central American indigenous languages; (2) A Wikimedian and expert in
> Southeast Asian (including Austronesian) languages; (3) A Wikimedian
> and expert in New Guinea languages.
>
> That would raise the number of LangCom members to 20 and from this
> point of time, we should wait to lose at least 7-8 members before
> adding any new.
>
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