On 22 April 2015 at 19:26, Sydney Poore <[email protected]> wrote: ... > At a time in our movement when we are reaching out to partner organization > (GLAM, universities, etc) to engage them in activities that are outside of > making on wiki edits, I think we need to expand our ideas about who is a > member of our movement with the standing to select the BoT. > > A good start to recognizing a broadening of the movement roles is to > include WMF staff and affiliate staff who do not make onsite edits. > > Additionally, I'm not keen on having people go through the motion of making > just enough edits to get the right to vote as a volunteer when their true > value to the wikimedia movement is through their staff work. > > Sydney
I find hard to understand the point of view of WMF employees who after a year in employment, have yet to find an hour to make a minimal number of edits on Wikipedia, just to see what it is like. I would compare it to working as a web page designer for a supermarket chain, and never trying to buy some food from one of the stores using your staff discount. Fae -- [email protected] https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Fae _______________________________________________ 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>
