I find the WMF staff who I interact with to be an inspiration to me with their dedication to the mission to the global wikimedia movement.
Perhaps the reason that many of them are not volunteering as on site contributors is because they are too busy with a day job that is solely focused on the mission of the movement. I fully support allowing our talented and dedicated WMF staff to have the opportunity to choose the people who guide the direction of the WMF. Sydney Sydney Poore User:FloNight Wikipedian in Residence at Cochrane Collaboration On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 11:34 AM, Bohdan Melnychuk <[email protected]> wrote: > I don't see why employees (no diff whether it's about WMF or affiliates) > who are not also volunteers should have the vote right. It's up to > Wikimedia movement to chose it's lead. The non-volunteering employees are > outsiders who are just hired to do some stuff for us since we tend to be > lazy. If they want to influence community's way they must become part of > the community. They have a choice of who's their boss - if they don't like > boss in WMF they could go look for another job. --Base > > 22.04.2015, 18:10, "Leigh Thelmadatter" <[email protected]>: > > +1 > >> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 10:51:25 -0400 > >> From: [email protected] > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Board of Trustee elections > >> > >> My two cents: no, no, no, absolutely not, by all means no, never. > >> > >> I am strongly, strongly, strongly opposed to such a move. The chapters > >> already elect two members of the Board, and that's quite enough. When > it > >> comes to matters concerning strategic direction chapters are the > movement > >> equivalent of a political interest group. The Board is the entity > >> ultimately responsible for the funding reigns, and I strongly suspect > that > >> such a move, *especially given the weakness of community response in > >> elections*, would immediately result in an influx of "chapter junkies" > who > >> will vote as a nearly-united political bloc for whatever candidate > promises > >> a freer flow of money. > >> > >> The ramifications would be immediate. This is absolutely the wrongest > >> possible direction to go in. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > > [email protected] > > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe>
