Thank you Asaf. This seems to be a mixture of ppl mgmt and org skills,
shifted heavily towards the latter. The last time I was at wmcon was 2014
[1] when this was bearly a topic at all, only touched it here and there a
bit, when it was inevitable.
Good to see the progress on this.
Hi Mike,
Nominally, the WMF is going to be the next Wikimedia organisation to do a
governance review, as per:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:APG/FDC_recommendations/2015-2016_round_2#Wikimedia_Foundation
https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Minutes/2017-11-17,18,19#Governance_Review
Thanks,
Mike
On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 8:36 AM Balázs Viczián
wrote:
>
> Would love to see people management skills workshops, and organizational
> skills (logistics) workshops...but I attend an event only every 2-3 years
> (or less), so this is just an almost silent suggestion :)
>
Wikimedia conference in
Forgive my (usual ?) bluntness, but I don't think congratulations are in order
for undertaking the governance review ;-)
As a member and unwilling observer, I can tell you it was dearly needed, be it
by internal or external auditors, and mandated by the WMF.
However, as a long time member of
Congratulations to Wikimedia France for undertaking this review and
publishing the results.
I believe all of the 3 governance reviews are important reading for
anyone involved with the WMF or any of the affiliates, and all have
important lessons for the movement. It's interesting to note that
Hi Nadine,
Thanks for sharing the document with us. I read it and I found interesting
to see the different clashes:
- there is no awareness of the individual interpretations of our mission
- the community wants anarchism in order to feel free, however the
organization needs some kind of
Thank you very much, Nadine!
As it is, as far as I remember, the third governance review of a Wikimedia
affiliate, I just created a page on Meta where they can be collected. Feel
free to add/modify: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Governance_Review
Cheers
Cornelius
On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 at 08:59,
Hi Nadine,
Thank you for sharing the report with us. I just gave a quick look at it,
and I printed it so I could read it on the flight to Cape Town. But I agree
with you that it's an important review and the recommendations are
important and may be useful for all of us!
Itzik
*Itzik Edri*
