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
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