Re: [Wikimediaau-l] [wma-comm] Follow up my update request :-)

[Virtual Steve]

Peter

Thanks for your message which has now got to us.

I 
think you should also have received an email from our secretary Sarah in
 regards to the AGM - particularly with regards our move to a postal 
vote this year.
Please contact me directly - or write to this list again if you need further 
answers on this matter.

In
 regards to nominations - we will be seeking them very soon - but of 
course those nominations (and the right to vote) will apply to financial
 members only.
My advice to you on this is that you send your payment
 to Sarah in the next day or two so you can take part in the process - 
particularly because renewal of memberships occurred on July 1st.

I'm
 going to leave your final point with regards opening the wiki - we've 
had that discussion many times as a committee and to date we have not 
reached a consensus or vote in favour of doing so.  However as for any 
matter a new committee may come to a different conclusion.

Steve


 Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2010 13:46:14 +1000
 From: thepmacco...@gmail.com
 To: c...@lists.wikimedia.org.au
 CC: wikimediaau-l@lists.wikimedia.org
 Subject: [wma-comm] Follow up my update request :-)
 
 Hi all,
 
 I tried to get in touch with you a while ago, but it occurs to me that
 perhaps my attempted forward of the below didn't really work, because
 I forwarded a reply, not an actual message - if my post seemed
 confusing, please accept my apologies.
 
 I'm growing increasingly concerned with the way the AGM is being
 prepared, and though there may be nothing to worry about, I would
 greatly appreciate a response to my questions below, to which I'd only
 add a polite inquiry as to why and how the decision was taken to move
 to a postal vote this year (
 http://www.wikimedia.org.au/w/index.php?title=2010-2011_AGMcurid=535diff=2813oldid=2805
 ) - seems a little odd to me, strange that it shouldn't have been
 announced perhaps a little wider, and fwiw, I haven't received any
 post of any kind from WMAU to date - should I have?
 
 * Membership Renewals - I may well have missed something, but did a
 formal renewal notice go out? How are renewals looking this year? (I
 know I haven't stumped up yet!) - as a member I feel a little
 under-engaged to be honest, and would like to see a wee bit more
 proactivity from whomever is taking care of this stuff (knowing who's
 accepted what responsibility would be great, for example - and
 apologies if I've missed the obvious!)
 
 * Committee Nominations - could the sec. confirm whether or not there
 have been any properly submitted nominations to date - the AGM is
 around the corner, and I think the process of discussion / Q + A etc.
 is probably healthy to kick off at this point?
 
 * An Open Wiki - please please please open up the WMAU wiki to allow
 registrations and editing by non members - I'll happily make the case
 for this, but please just do it!
 
 cheers,
 
 Peter,
 PM.
 
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[Virtual Steve]

As the new treasurer of the Wiki-Aus I have been reading this discussion with 
some interest and I now make the following comment.

I am in support of Sarah's continual point that only financial members should 
be able to edit the official wiki for many reasons,
however the below snippet from Andrew's comment is particularly useful and 
valid.
 
Quite frankly folks the committee members of this chapter already have 
absolutely far too many things to read - 
to the extent that there is a very great chance that we will come awash with 
the excess of that information 
(and indeed there are clear instances where we have already).  

Adding to that situation with open editing of the official wiki is neither 
practical nor reflective of real world boards,
and quite frankly we are a real world board with real world responsibilities as 
a part of corporate governance requirements.
In a nutshell we are responsible in the main to the financial members of this 
chapter and 
it is only their material that should take any more of our time or effort at 
the the official chapter pages.

There are plenty of ways to draw our attention to issues of concern at other 
open wikis and 
so I for one do not support open editing in any form.

 *Andrew comment sent Saturday, 12 December 2009 9:38 AM
 Expecting already busy committee members (and I'm not even
 speaking for myself here) to monitor the wiki in such circumstances is an
 imposition on them and a completely unnecessary one - what do we stand to
 benefit from it, as against the costs?
  
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