While it may well be that other people in the WMF decide some of those issues, the 4 community-elected board members are the only people the community can elect in the WMF (afaik). We can't even elect the Committee that decides which questions we can ask to prospective board candidates.
So really this is a bit like the questions asked to US presidential candidates. Many things are outside their control (eg fall upon Congress or the states), but people still ask questions about things that matter to them. Similarly, many of those questions matter to many members in the community. I think board candidates should answer some of them. Not necessarily all 52, but answering the at least ~10 most popular ones would seem reasonable. People want to know where candidates stand on those issues. The board passes an annual resolution for the budget, so I'd say Q47 is relevant. Even if the board won't be passing a resolution on mobile communications directly, they still decide the budget that goes towards such issues, and decides the CEO who will pick the staff that deal with more lower-level issues. After all, the board won't be passing a resolution on Wikispecies or Wikinews either, yet a question about that made it in. A common generic question on diversity is asked, but the more relevant, specific question about diversity concerns in the WMF staff team was omitted. I find it hard to understand any consistency in the questions picked. It may help me understand if the relevant Committee explained the process they used to choose. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l Public archives at https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/4VIDRDDMR4F6DNFRJV6OI6TMDEDE7R7N/ To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
