[Wikimedia-l] Re: Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees 2022 election - updates

2022-04-24 Thread Uwe Herzke
I've asked for the reasons to mix those two totally different type of seats in 2021 on the discussion page of the board[1], but I never got any answer besides ''the board decided this way'', which is in no way a valid decision process for community matters in the Wikiverse. I've asked again on

[Wikimedia-l] Re: Community Wishlist Survey 2022 is coming. Help us and prepare

2022-01-06 Thread Uwe Herzke
This should be '''The''' Community wishlist, one for the whole bunch of devs that are supposed to be working for us editors. Ther is up to now no option to make any wishes to all those myriads of devs, whose workforce is wasted on such useless and unwanted pet-projects like FLOW or ReBrand or

[Wikimedia-l] An Update From the Board

2020-12-06 Thread Uwe Herzke
@Pelagic: As I just saw, that you were referring to an even older post, that was about this section on the same talk page, the talk page on Meta about the changes. That's the first place to look for such stuff, as that's the most legitimate place for such discussions. Where did you expect this?

[Wikimedia-l] An Update From the Board

2020-12-06 Thread Uwe Herzke
@Pelagic: The last update I know of is this here from November 17: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/October_2020_-_Call_for_feedback_about_Bylaws_changes_and_Board_candidate_rubric#Update_after_the_Board_Governance_Committee_meeting_on_Nov_17 Greetings

Re: [Wikimedia-l] Wikipedia coediting spaces?

2020-07-30 Thread Uwe Herzke
Hi Leinonen, In Germany we have several kind of co-editing spaces, listed here: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Community-Space In addition there are as well several "Stammtische" (well, at least usually, currently of course not):

[Wikimedia-l] WMF Advisory board

2016-01-29 Thread Uwe Herzke
I fully subscribe to that notion. The board has to be equipped with members, who are primarily selected for their adherence with the core values of the Wikiverse, the five pillars[1]. The WMF is not, and should never be, anything like a corporation, it's an educational charitable non-profit NGO.