Hello KuboF, Thank you for your message. I am sending a quick message to let you know we have received your email and are looking into this situation.
Thank you, Megan On Mon, Mar 29, 2021 at 10:14 PM Michal Matúšov <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > > Please, help protect the trustworthiness of the Wikimedia movement in > Slovakia - help WUG WMSVK to do a mass fundraising only after it will have > solved its governance issues (and stop it from using Wikipedia's site > notices until that). > > The Wikimedia User Group Wikimedians of Slovakia (WUG WMSVK) is currently > using Sitenotice and Anonnotice of Slovak Wikipedia for local fundraising. > While I appreciate the effort for a non-WMF revenue source, it is not a > good timing right now. Currently, WUG WMSVK is still under investigation of > AffCom for their governance issues and is recovering too slowly from > repeated bylaws violations done in the past under lead of current Chair > Matej Grochal and current Vice-Chair Radoslava Semanová. Much of it is > published on [1]. Some non-public violations will be published after a 6 > months period of AffCom investigations (which is going to end sometime > before 16th of June). > > The use of Sitenotice and Anonnotice is based on skwiki Village Pump > request from the Vice-Chair Dávid Štefan done 23th March 2021 [2] and > executed by WUG WMSVK's Chair himself less than 3 day later [3]. This is a > clear example of Conflict of Interests - Matej Grochal mixing his role of > WUG WMSVK's Chair and skwiki's admin (that part would be OK, according to > me, if the activation of site noticies would be done by some other admin). > The time for Community reaction was very little (less than 3 days). The > community reaction is very weak, but at this point clearly against such use. > > I have right now contacted AffCom. But they are a volunteer based > committee with meetings once in a month, so it is probable that they would > react too slowly (like, AffCom haven't reacted until now to my message > about probable bylaws violation of WUG WMSVK from 3 weeks ago, even despite > my personal calls). > > [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedians_of_Slovakia/history#2019 > [2] https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/7180661 > [3] https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Diff/7182017 > > I hope for quick reaction > Best regards > KuboF Hromoslav > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > New messages to: [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, > <mailto:[email protected]?subject=unsubscribe> > -- Megan Hernandez Vice President of Advancement Wikimedia Foundation
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