Hello
Le 04/03/2019 à 20:30, Samuel Klein a écrit :
For group contacts + reports : It would be good to have an annual
nomination thread, and short wiki vote, a few months before our annual
report? (/August/ each year)
Ok. So we could put that back on the table around May ?
That way we can use the same energy to summarize what's been
happening; those involved in active projects should feel welcome to be
liaisons; and we keep the meta pages up to date.
On board voting:
For information, the signpost (well, Bluerasberry) has published this
that is worth reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2019-02-28/In_focus
+ Arranging private votes has been a perennial weakness for the
movement. Would others be interested in public discussion of
pros/cons of different candidates?
For information :
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliate-selected_Board_seats
Ok, vote is one thing. Nomination is another.
So to start with, I am not sure what is currently the process for
nominating candidates...
Apparently, voting takes care on the ChapterWiki, which is a private
wiki (I suppose that Sam has access to it... do you Sam ?)
I presume that nomination process also takes place on the ChapterWiki ?
Can you tell us if that is the case Sam ?
+ I respect the concerns around voting multiple times: we want people
to be comfortable joining many groups while only voting once. Is
there any proposal yet re: how to do this?
Unclear
+ Say that, per Nemo, only incorporated groups vote in the final
selection. Perhaps we could share formal recommendations with that
group, before their vote (and sort those out on Meta).
As said previously, ALL groups can vote. It is not restricted to
incorporated groups.
But indeed, we can also simply choose to NOT vote. But if so, this is
something we should explicitely decide.
I vaguely feel that what we should do is
1) participate in the nomination process (IF we have a name to propose
and IF it is not in the current list - if list there is... so first
thing would be to figure out where the nomination list would actually be...)
2) not participate in the vote (because it is unclear who our membership
is and it is likely many of us are in other groups)
What about starting by polling our "members" on a wiki page about how
they feel about the offline group actually trying to vote for someone ?
Florence
SJ
On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 9:39 AM Federico Leva (Nemo)
<nemow...@gmail.com <mailto:nemow...@gmail.com>> wrote:
Thanks for raising the point.
Florence Devouard, 27/02/19 14:17:
> Yet... an WMF affiliate has some obligations... so how should we
deal
> with that in the least time-consuming, least-bureaucratic,
> least-expensive way, yet playing our role in representing,
recruting and
> promoting offline in the mouvement ?
From my point of view as a supporter of offline projects, the ideal
solution is that all affiliates agree that only incorporated entities
will have a formal vote (whatever its weight) in the final phase
of the
selection of 2 board seats, to avoid creating new unwanted work about
internal governance.
Alternatively, a simple method might be to decide that all user
groups
will have a discussion/vote on a certain wiki page where all their
members can join (Meta-Wiki may be enough if it can be public), so
that
it's easy to identify unwanted patterns. (And establish a quorum or
whatever other criteria is decided.)
Federico
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