Re: Gregory. I did not mean incorporation in the legal sense, rather, I meant it in the community sense, sorry for not being clear :). To clarify, I am not opposed to lowering the barriers to entry, I am opposed to doing both that and this, too.
I see two threads of thought here, automatically granting WMF staff voting privileges (which I weakly oppose, largely per Asaf) and automatically granting chapter and organization staff voting privileges (which I am opposed to most strongly). On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 1:49 PM, Asaf Bartov <abar...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 8:54 AM, Sydney Poore <sydney.po...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > 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. > > > > So do I. :) > > > > 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. > > > > Eh, no, that's not a valid argument. Everybody is busy, most Wikimedians > have day jobs or demanding schoolwork of some sort. People manage to > contribute to the projects if they want to. It's a matter of > prioritization, as always in life. So we mustn't accept "maybe they're > just too busy" as an excuse for why staffers purportedly "can't" edit. > Many staffers do. Some don't. In both cases, it's by choice and > preference. > > > > 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. > > > > Meeting the suffrage bar as a community member is not difficult. Those > (few) staffers who aren't already eligible to vote as either developers or > content contributors, further filtered by the criterion "cares sufficiently > to read about candidates and figure out voting" -- which I guesstimate to > be under 20, and probably under 10 -- could have, and therefore should > have, simply edited a bit, on any of the projects, to get suffrage. I > don't think there's any disenfranchisement if they don't get an automatic > vote. > > A. > -- > Asaf Bartov > Wikimedia Foundation <http://www.wikimediafoundation.org> > > Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the > sum of all knowledge. Help us make it a reality! > https://donate.wikimedia.org > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
