I am alarmed.
While the page on Meta page on the bylaws changes highlights only
additions, a direct comparison with the current bylaws shows some
significant deletions. Some issues:
* The line "(G) Board Majority. A majority of the Board Trustee positions,
without counting the Community Founder Tr
Part of the blame here is mine, for casually bringing up a controversial and
slightly off-thread topic. But I agree with Paulo that an unelected Board has
little legitimacy, even if we would like them to have it. The most recent
crisis of confidence around rebranding makes a person ask: Why ar
Hello Brad,
Asking what the legitimacy of such a thing is for the broad Movement seems
to me a very reasonable question, especially when I'm not from the US, I'm
not a native English speaker and I'm not US-stuff wise.
You, however, have answered in a defensive and aggressive way, as if
everybody i
This is a very, very old and tired argument. If you do not understand United
States non-profit corporations, go educate yourself about those first. If your
perspective is non-US based, you may have a different frame of mind which is
irreconcilable with the way WMF is. Take all the time you need
Hi Samir,
First of all, thank you for sharing the detailed analysis and for
publishing the raw data after a review. I appreciate the efforts made on
that front.
I wanted to quickly acknowledge (as you are undoubtly aware from open
question responses) that there were a number of reports of people
The replacement of an explicit voting process with an unspecified process +
schedule seems unnecessarily vague. Especially since the current ElecComm
does not seem to have been party to the decisions around this year's delay.
Drawing from the current Bylaws language, it would be better to add
some
I knew they are theoretically self-appointed, but was under the impression
that at least until now an appearance of democracy and legitimacy towards
the community has been respected, which no longer seems to be the case.
I wonder what would be the legitimacy of a self-appointing body in the eyes
of
Greetings, this is a semiautomated response pointing out that the
Wikimedia Foundation Board is not elected, it's self-appointing. The
so-called "elections" are in fact nominations to be considered by the
Board. Therefore, the Bylaws have not been broken.
This is an unfortunate arrangement, p
The terms of 3 BoT members expired last month, and the BoT itself decided
to extend them? What is the legitimacy of that? And why is a BoT which is
expected to be in a mere interim management waiting for elections,
presenting profound changes to its Bylaws [1]?
[1] -
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik
(sent in reply to the original e-mail but it was caught since it was on the
announce-l)
Hi Nataliia,
I imagine the board went through an evaluation process - perhaps with the
assistance of non-profit governance experts - to help guide the board as to
the appropriate size given the board's functio
Hello,
I can answer a few of the questions raised in this thread.
When the Board postponed the community selection of trustees, we also
extended the terms of the trustees in the affected seats (María Sefidari,
Dariusz Jemielniak, and James Heilman)[1]. Their terms were originally set
to expire la
Hi Nataliia,
I imagine the board went through an evaluation process - perhaps with the
assistance of non-profit governance experts - to help guide the board as to
the appropriate size given the board's function, research about the
effectiveness of corporate boards at different sizes, etc. Can you
Dear all,
Today the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees starts two calls for
feedback: on changes to our Bylaws[1] mainly to increase the Board size
from 10 to 16 members, and on a trustee candidate rubric[2] to introduce
new, more effective ways to evaluate new board candidates. These proposal
Thanks, Paulo! You can find the geographical distribution for both
affiliate and individual respondents on page 9 and 10 of the full report on
Commons:
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ABrand_Project_Naming_Survey_Feedback_Report.pdf&page=9
Best,
Samir
Samir Elsharbaty (he/hi
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