Hoi,
This is great. So we are in a good shape to move from only an access
program to new projects to something more.
It would help when the notes from the Berlin meeting are published; it
allows me and others who were not there understand the thinking at that
time.
Thanks,
GerardM
On 20 April 2017 at 23:05, Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees <
[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Milos Rancic,
>
> The board trusts the Language Committee to conduct its work by simple
> majority, or however it sees fit. There is nothing in your Charter about
> how you are supposed to reach the decision, so you can change your practice
> (and maybe work on improvements of your Charter).
>
> The eligibility rules for approving the projects have not been changed, so
> it seems that the revision of the way the Committee organises its work will
> not result in a major and rapid change in the rate of approvals of language
> projects. If there is a desire to remodel the rules themselves, the board
> would like to have that explained and justified so that we can approve it
> or not first.
>
> And thank you very much for your important work!
>
> Yours sincerely,
> Nataliia Tymkiv
>
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> 04/06/2017 11:33 - Milos Rancic написав(-ла):
>
> > Dear Board members,
> >
> > On behalf of the fellow Language committee members, I am sending the
> > following request to you:
> >
> > During more than a decade of its existence, Language committee's main
> task
> > was to block creation of the projects. Having in mind that goal and the
> > fact that the capacities of the Wikimedia movement at that time were not
> > linguistically strong, the main rule related to the decision-making
> process
> > inside of the Language committee was consensus.
> >
> > Language policy is different today than it was at the time of creation.
> We
> > have established a common sense practice based on the situation then. As
> a
> > result, we ask the Board to reconsider the rule of consensus inside of
> the
> > Language committee and allow it to make decisions by majority,
> > supermajority or other methods defined by the committee itself.
> >
> > Milos
> >
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