Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: [WCA][Governance] Training for chapter and thematic org. board members
Very good idea. You can put me on your trainee list Cheers, Stefan aka Fussi 2013/4/21 Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com Sounds like a great idea. Best regards, Bence On Sunday, April 21, 2013, Fae f...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: The majority of chapter boards (and the proposed thematic organizations) do not routinely have an induction process with training in expected reporting requirements, liability as directors, the role of oversight and how to maintain a competent and professional board function, etc. At the Milan conference, I shall be proposing that the WCA takes a lead in arranging a shared training course and workshop with the aim of this being a regular planned activity, so that chapters and other groups agree basic expectations for the behaviours and competencies of board members, and benefit from the efficiencies of a shared training event, hopefully hosted by one of the chapters with handy facilities to support it. I have chatted about this proposition during coffee breaks with 4 different 'large' chapters, and the feedback so far is that this would be an easy way of improving the quality of our governance and of definite direct benefit to many of our organizations. Cheers, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: [WCA][Governance] Training for chapter and thematic org. board members
I didn't like the idea, because, chapters are not equal. Why you don't focus your energy sharing experiences in one open wiki, creating a cookbook (not a manual), and than another communities can use this material too... On 22 April 2013 03:41, Stefan Fussan derfu...@gmail.com wrote: Very good idea. You can put me on your trainee list Cheers, Stefan aka Fussi 2013/4/21 Bence Damokos bdamo...@gmail.com Sounds like a great idea. Best regards, Bence On Sunday, April 21, 2013, Fae f...@wikimedia.org.uk wrote: The majority of chapter boards (and the proposed thematic organizations) do not routinely have an induction process with training in expected reporting requirements, liability as directors, the role of oversight and how to maintain a competent and professional board function, etc. At the Milan conference, I shall be proposing that the WCA takes a lead in arranging a shared training course and workshop with the aim of this being a regular planned activity, so that chapters and other groups agree basic expectations for the behaviours and competencies of board members, and benefit from the efficiencies of a shared training event, hopefully hosted by one of the chapters with handy facilities to support it. I have chatted about this proposition during coffee breaks with 4 different 'large' chapters, and the feedback so far is that this would be an easy way of improving the quality of our governance and of definite direct benefit to many of our organizations. Cheers, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com +55 11 979 718 884 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: [WCA][Governance] Training for chapter and thematic org. board members
On 22 April 2013 08:25, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't like the idea, because, chapters are not equal. I believe the chapters are equal. Yes, yes, I'm a idealist dreamer. :-) Certainly all chapters (and in the future 'thorgs') have exactly one voice each, one vote each, one representative each, regardless of how many staff they employ, how big their budget is, or even how successful their programmes are in delivering charitable outcomes. Why you don't focus your energy sharing experiences in one open wiki, creating a cookbook (not a manual), and than another communities can use this material too... I do not think this is an either/or situation. All materials will be public and volunteers helping the WCA task teams are already working on making case studies and cookbook materials available. One benefit of making all materials used in a future training and workshop session public, is that they can be re-used and improved; for example by volunteers making these available in different languages or running their own regional sessions for chapter board members and others that play a part in chapter governance. Cheers, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: [Wikitech-ambassadors] Deploying alpha of VisualEditor to non-English Wikipedias
Any user on one of fifteen Wikipedias (English plus the fourteen new ones). I don't think it will be opt in on any others just yet, though hopefully soon! Andrew. On 22 April 2013 11:02, Deryck Chan deryckc...@wikimedia.hk wrote: I think by opt-in, James means that any user from any Wikipedia can opt themselves in from Thursday onwards. Is that correct? Deryck On 22 April 2013 07:14, Nasir Khan nasir8...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Is it possible to include bn (Bengali Wikipeda) in the list ? i want to start the test earlier :) * -- **Nasir Khan Saikat* http://profiles.google.com/nasir8891 www.nasirkhn.com On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 3:11 PM, Nicole Ebber nicole.eb...@wikimedia.de wrote: Hey, The VisualEditor is going to be deployed in an opt-in version to several Wikipedias on Thursday next week. I am planning to hold a BarCamp session this afternoon in the Milan to discuss how chapters can support or facilitate a community communication and feedback process in this regards. So anyone interested in this topic is welcome to join! Thanks, Nicole Ebber International Affairs http://wikimedia.de All, TL;DR: VisualEditor will be deployed on 14 new Wikipedias next week as an opt-in alpha. Your assitance is requested to inform your wikis about this and help get the software translated. Next week (on 25 April) we are going to deploy the alpha opt-in version of the VisualEditor to some non-English Wikipedias in the same way that it has been on the English Wikipedia since December 2012. This will let users get familiar with the VisualEditor, give us feedback on what works and what is broken, and help us prioritise further work ahead of the planned deployment as a 'default' editor for all users which we intend to do in a few months' time. Due to a number of issues we have been unable to release VisualEditor to non-English wikis until now, and we would very much like to get some great feedback from as many wikis as possible - especially for extended Unicode and RTL languages, but also other languages. Does the VisualEditor work in your language? Does it gel with your wiki's workflow? The initial languages we want to target are the top 10 Wikipedias by way of scale - de, nl, fr, it, ru, es, sv, pl, ja - plus selected others to help us discover issues we anticipate: ar, he, hi, ko, zh. These will let us test most of the locales we are concerned about. If this goes well, we hope to deploy the opt-in alpha to all Wikipedias. Please tell your wiki colleagues that this is coming, especially if your wiki is in this list! Additionally, you can see how fully-translated the software is into your language in the stats at TranslateWiki.Net[0] - please encourage wiki colleagues to help translate the messages ahead of the deployment! As a note, we have just updated the VisualEditor integration so that the Edit tab goes to VisualEditor, and there is an Edit source tab to go to the wikitext editor. This change (which affects the English Wikipedia opt-in deployment and MediaWiki.org as well as the new deployments mentioned above) moves the way that VisualEditor integrates with the wiki's workflow to be closer to how it will appear when it is the 'default' editor. It is still easy to use the wikitext editor if that is what you want to do - the Edit source tab (at least for now) will be above the fold and not in the drop-down menu on Vector. Happy to answer any questions you might have! Yours, -- James D. Forrester Product Manager, VisualEditor Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. jforres...@wikimedia.org | @jdforrester ___ Wikitech-ambassadors mailing list wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-ambassadors ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- - Andrew Gray andrew.g...@dunelm.org.uk ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Resign due to COI and Application to the ED position
Original-Nachricht Betreff:Resign due to COI and Application to the ED position Datum: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 15:45:31 +0200 Von:Ting Chen tc...@wikimedia.org An: Board list boar...@lists.wikimedia.org Dear board, after intensive consideration and some sleepless nights I have decided to apply for the ED job of the Wikimedia Foundation. Due to obvious conflict of interest I will resign from the Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation, in effect at May 5th. In the past five years I have worked with you on our first strategic planning, together and especially with the help of the current ED Sue we saw the organization leave its infancy. We saw it grow into the innocent childhood. And yet we are still facing a lot of challenges. And for me the following three are the biggest and most critical for the coming years: We know that our active editor community is in overall decline. In many ways our community is biased, there is the famous gender gap, but there are also other gaps. Last year on Wikimania in Washington I wondered if I was the only one who noticed that there were almost no African Americans attending the conference, when according to the official census more than half of the citizen of the city is black. When attending community events in Germany I notice every time that I never met a single Turkish migrant there, while about 5% of the German have a Turkish background. We generally failed to attract minority groups to join and actively take part of our community. While the Foundation took a lot of effort to provide technical support for new users we also need, and need to strengthen our effort on the social aspect of this challenge. Technology alone cannot solve social problems. We will be able to resolve some of the problems by carefully and consistently adjusting our policies and rules, other problems need a mind change and a cultural change in the broad society outside of the digital world. To gather and share the total knowledge of the mankind we not only need academic knowledge but also the daily live wisdom. To keep our neutrality we only need to motivate the minority inside of the society to join our community. I believe the ability of our community to adjust itself, I believe the ability of our movement in changing the society, and I believe the Foundation need to play a key role in this process. And I want the Foundation to take this challenge. While our communities often show a bias in their own geographical regions, we also see a large global bias of our movement and in our projects. For me the revamp of the catalyst program does not mean that the Foundation should give up its global south effort. For me it means that we need to take this challenge with a new approach. Instead of trying to plant seed in the region we should strengthen our effort by providing as much support as we can to the seedlings that are already there. Unlike mature communities like in western Europe or in northern America, small communities in places such as Kenya or Cambodia, but also in regions like China or Uzbekistan see active recruitment of editors as an essential necessity to make themselves sustainable. My believe is that the right approach is to provide support to these communities, instead of trying to build a parallel structure beside of them. In regions of the world, where hunger and poverty is still an acute and real threat to the people, the challenge to establish a culture of sharing is a very big challenge. But nevertheless, where ever I traveled, I also encounter people who are attached and admired by this approach of a society. Knowledge sharing and prosperity, freedom and peace can be a self strengthening positive feedback loop, but as every positive feedback loop, especially at the beginning it is important to have impulses to get the loop started and get stronger, until it can sustain itself. I think the Foundation should play an important role in this mechanism. Because without the part of the world with the largest majority of the human being we are far away from gathering and sharing the entirety of the human knowledge. The third challenge that I see for the Foundation is to provide a consistent, long lasting relationship concept with the partner groups and organizations as defined in the movement roles document. In the past years the relation between the Foundation and the partner organizations are more defined by things that failed or that may fail. There were quite a few emergency measurements taken to react on crises or to mitigate emerging crises. I believe this cannot be a longtime approach. We need the local communities and the partner organizations to take the first two challenges I mentioned above. And we need to establish a long term, more trustful relation with them so that we can really rely on each other. We need to minimize frictions and turbulence. We need to
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Fwd: Resign due to COI and Application to the ED position
Hello dear all, I would like to add a few comments to my resign letter here to clarify a few things that is related to possible conflict of interest. Sue informed the board about her intention to leave the Foundation before she informed the staff and the general public with her letter. I decided to apply for the job before Sue published her letter. And as soon as I made the decision I informed the board so that they are aware of the situation and from that point on I recused myself from all topics that may potentially have to do with the transition. Among other from all discussions about the transition itself and from all discussions about the ongoing board member search. I drafted the first version of this letter about at the time when Sue published her letter. My original intention was to have a clear cut and resign from that time. The board asked me to stay mainly because there is an ambiguity in the bylaw which can be interpreted in the way as that the board is not able to operate with less than nine members. On our meeting in Milan the board decided to fix this with an amendment of the bylaw (which should be published today for community consultation). The community consultation lasts ten days and after that the board would vote on a voice meeting to have the amendment in effect. That is why my resign would be in effect at May 5^th . The other reason is that we want Sue's announcement be handled properly, with as less as possible interferences. There is one point I want to point out that do might imply a small conflict of interest: I voted on the resolution on Appointing and authorizing a transition committee in the search of a new Executive Director. Since this resolution need to be published at the same time Sue makes her decision public there is no way for me to recuse in this case without spoil Sue's message or distract the public attention from the importance of the message. I pointed the possible POI to the board and the board accepted it. We all believe that the possible POI is minimal since I didnot take part on the creation or discussion of this resolution Greetings Ting ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Proposal: [WCA][Governance] Training for chapter and thematic org. board members
I'm not talking about egalitarian values of political powers, but we are in the most adverse situations in completely different countries, cultures and unequal values. These are factors that should be taken into consideration, the world is not Europe, and in Europe there are many differences. On 22 April 2013 04:48, Fae fae...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 April 2013 08:25, Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com wrote: I didn't like the idea, because, chapters are not equal. I believe the chapters are equal. Yes, yes, I'm a idealist dreamer. :-) Certainly all chapters (and in the future 'thorgs') have exactly one voice each, one vote each, one representative each, regardless of how many staff they employ, how big their budget is, or even how successful their programmes are in delivering charitable outcomes. Why you don't focus your energy sharing experiences in one open wiki, creating a cookbook (not a manual), and than another communities can use this material too... I do not think this is an either/or situation. All materials will be public and volunteers helping the WCA task teams are already working on making case studies and cookbook materials available. One benefit of making all materials used in a future training and workshop session public, is that they can be re-used and improved; for example by volunteers making these available in different languages or running their own regional sessions for chapter board members and others that play a part in chapter governance. Cheers, Fae -- fae...@gmail.com http://j.mp/faewm Guide to email tags: http://j.mp/mfae ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Rodrigo Tetsuo Argenton rodrigo.argen...@gmail.com +55 11 979 718 884 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Request for Comment on Wikimedia Video Tutorials Grant Project
I am writing to request comment from Wikimedia users who can provide guidance on what projects and their components would benefit from receiving a video tutorial. Video tutorials are being developed by Jackson Peebles ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Jackson_Peebles) and will be available in their first phase on any English project, including, but not limited to, Mediawiki, Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Metawiki, and Wiktionary. The software being used for development also enables translation by multilingual users. The project is being overseen at English Wikipedia, the home wiki of Jackson Peebles, but is meant to be a cross-wiki project. To see examples of what projects have been proposed for tutorials thus far and to make comments of your own, please visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Video_and_Interactive_Tutorials and post there. You may also visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Video_and_Interactive_Tutorials or https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:Jackson_Peebles/Video_and_Interactive_Tutorials for more information on the grant. This project is entirely community-driven, and the editor leading the project is not receiving any funding for his time. There are no restrictions to who can submit recommendations, and comments on other proposals are welcome. Thank you very much for your time, and I look forward to your input. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Office hour with WMF researchers
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Re: [Wikimedia-l] Info: Wikimedia Conference feedback - Grazie mille!
Thank all of you in *WMIT* for your hard work and organization. It was Beautiful and inviting conference. I enjoyed very much all gatherings and found them very Interesting and informative. Milan is gorgeous! It was great to meet everyone. Till we meet again Dorit WM-IL 2013/4/21 Samuel Klein meta...@gmail.com Ditto: A warm thanks to WMIT for taking up the call, and to everyone who took part in the conference. I enjoyed it tremendously and found both formal and informal parts facilitated well. I regret that I had to fly back a day early! For those staying on past tonight: as bars go, I recommend the Ostello Bello, by Missori station, where a few of us stayed. It is not only an excellent hostel, it runs a wonderfully energetic and inexpensive bar with 2 floors of seating, and table games guitars to play. (Packed every night I was there :) Sj, Just landing in Newark On Apr 21, 2013 11:51 AM, Chris Keating chriskeatingw...@gmail.com wrote: (off-topic) And how come an English pub in Italia?! At least the grapa was good. ;) As I mentioned to a few people at the time, the beer was mainly German, Czech and Irish, and the spirits mainly Scottish, American, Italian and Russian, and the food was mainly nachos. Might not sound very English but that's exactly like every pub in London. :-) I will now stop spamming the list and get on my flight. ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lack of community involvement in WMF budget planning
Hi Sam, thanks for the message, I appreciate hearing from a Board member at long last. I agree that it might be a good idea to collect feedback during the year (is there actually any page that could be used for this purpose on Meta?) — but I think that it also needs to be mentioned that it's much easier and much more useful for the community to comment on a budget plan, especially before it is approved and put into motion. Can you please let us know if the Board arrived at any decision about this? I had a look at the questions that were asked to you during the open meeting in Milan (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/wmconf2013-meeting-with-the-board), but I was unable to find any related to the budget issue. -- Tomasz ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Consultation opened for Bylaws change
Just in case others had problems with the links (thanks gmail...) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws/May_2013_-_Article_IV_Section_6_%28Vacancies%29 Risker On 22 April 2013 16:54, Alice Wiegand awieg...@wikimedia.org wrote: Hi all, as Ting has announced in his earlier mail, the WMF Board prepared an amendment for its Bylaws to clarify the wording and ensure its ability to act especially in situations where a resignation reduces the number of trustees to less than nine or an officer position is affected. Please take a look at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_bylaws/May_2013_-_Article_IV_Section_6_(Vacancies)and leave your comments on the talk page. Tell us what you think about it, your comments are welcome. Regards, Alice. -- Board of Trustees Wikimedia Foundation Support Free Knowledge: https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Lack of community involvement in WMF budget planning
Tomasz W. Kozlowski, 22/04/2013 21:57: I had a look at the questions that were asked to you during the open meeting in Milan (https://etherpad.wikimedia.org/wmconf2013-meeting-with-the-board), but I was unable to find any related to the budget issue. I confirm there was none, I noticed the lack of one. Nemo ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
[Wikimedia-l] Fwd: A refreshing change to the ConfirmEdit extension
Sorry for cross-posting, but I wanted to make sure more people are aware this before we deploy it (likely on Thursday the 25th). -- Forwarded message -- From: Steven Walling swall...@wikimedia.org Date: Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 3:19 PM Subject: A refreshing change to the ConfirmEdit extension To: Coordination of technology deployments across languages/projects wikitech-ambassad...@lists.wikimedia.org Hi all, This is a heads up that we've added a small new feature which hopefully will make things less painful for users across the projects: the ability to refresh the CAPTCHA you're presented without refreshing the entire page. It should work everywhere ConfirmEdit can throw the image CAPTCHA at someone: account creation, login, the edit form, etc. (It won't modify the simple math CAPTCHA, and so on.) The original enhancement request for this ( https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14230) goes back to 2008. A patch was submitted back in January by lalei: https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/44376/ If you want to test this out yourself before it's deployed, you can use http://toro.wmflabs.org/wiki/Main_Page Forgive my awful pun in the subject line, -- Steven Walling https://wikimediafoundation.org/ ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] Strategic plans of the Wikimedia entities: could you link your strategy, please?
Great idea, Ziko. I helped clean up that page a bit also. If you are part of planning for the future of wiki Projects as well - such as Wikidata or Wikisource, please link to those docs (or just the collector-bugs listing their top-priority feature requests) as well. SJ On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Ziko van Dijk vand...@wmnederland.nl wrote: Hello, At the Wikimedia Conference in Milan several people have asked me about the strategy document of Wikimedia Nederland. We have the link on our chapter's page on Meta Wiki: http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Nederland Then, I looked up the Meta Wiki page Strategy. It seems that the page can use some update. I allowed myself to link to the WMF Strategic Plan, and start a section with chapter strategies. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy Would you like to make a link to your strategy document? Kind regards Ziko --- Vereniging Wikimedia Nederland dr. Ziko van Dijk, voorzitter http://wikimedia.nl Wikimedia Nederland Postbus 167 3500 AD Utrecht --- ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l -- Samuel Klein @metasj w:user:sj +1 617 529 4266 ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Wikimania-l] Creating a Wikimania Committee
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:42 PM, phoebe ayers phoebe.ay...@gmail.comwrote: On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 10:17 PM, James Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, A small group of long-time Wikimaniacs have been working on the perrenial plan to produce a Wikimania Committee - a community group who would help steer Wikimania from year to year, advising each local hosting team and ensuring that the processes are open, transparent and community-led. Here are our drafts of what we think we'd want the committee to be like, a charter, and the resolution which we're submitting to the WMF Board: * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimania_Committee/Charter * https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_resolutions/Wikimania_Committee Comments are very welcome; we're trying to get this done fairly quickly, and of course we will iterate these plans as we get feedback and hopefully more forward on the oft-stalled next steps. J. -- James D. Forrester jdforres...@gmail.com [[Wikipedia:User:Jdforrester|James F.]] (speaking purely in a personal capacity) I've been working on these documents as well, and am glad that we're once again moving forward on this idea. It's been discussed for a long time -- for at least the last five Wikimanias! And from the conversations I've been in over the years, I think there's been pretty broad consensus that having a community-driven oversight committee for Wikimania, as proposed here, is a good idea. The idea is that the committee would ensure continuity and planning from year to year as well as help provide oversight of annual conference planning; and it would be a more formal and representative mechanism than we've had in the past. After long discussions, I think we are finally (!) in a good position to make the committee happen now. Please add your feedback and questions, and help make this proposal better. I'm also happy to propose James as the initial chair of the committee, and also very happy that he's willing to do it :) He's been working hard at keeping the Wikimania process generally on track this year and for the past several years, has helped shepherd many ideas into this proposal, and is in my opinion the best person to get the committee off the ground. best, Phoebe ___ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
