The projects are the route by which content is added to Wikipedia. The purpose of Wikipedia is not to have an organisation—the purpose is to have and distribute free content. Everything else is superstructure—everything except the individual volunteers and the projects. This superstructure can be important, but not essential — the volunteers are capable of organising themselves and maintaining the projects. The foundation by itself is capable of almost nothing, as it doesn’t add content. The chapters are of value, primarily in recruiting contributors—without that, they’d just be social clubs.
The volunteers and the projects to which they add content are what matters. The three key functions of the organisation are maintaining MediaWiki (but that’s a volunteer effort also) in raising the small amount of essential funding, and the critically important political work of supporting freedom of the internet and of speech more generally. But our influence for this is because people in the world use the content the volunteers add to the projects. The structure must be organised around them. We are here to build an encyclopaedia. > On Jul 7, 2021, at 12:59 AM, Željko Blaće <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tuesday, July 6, 2021, Ciell Wikipedia <[email protected]> wrote: >> Thank you Bill, I always find organisation charts very much enlightening, >> and have been missing something like it for the WMF for some time now. > > I feel the same. We need much much more of diagramatic content and higher > level of organizational understanding for all Wikimedia contributors. > > >> I think all the departments of the WMF-side are equal, right? For instance, >> legal has no higher 'status' then fundraising or research: employees are >> equals, just with a different function in the organisation.Therefore all the >> different departments should be presented in a horizontal line, not a >> vertical one, like in this one for example. > > Kind of good point, but maybe scale (same size) is enough to represent > equals, rather than direction/orientation? Not an expert. > > BTW. > .svg file export would be best > for the posibility of translation > within Wikimedia Commons ;-) > > > Best, Z. > >> Vriendelijke groet, >> Ciell >> >> >> Op di 6 jul. 2021 om 01:03 schreef Bill Takatoshi <[email protected]>: >>> Earlier today I tried to predict what the WMF org chart will look >>> like, but I wasn't confident about my suggestion, so I created a new >>> email account, subscribed it to wikimedia-l, and tried to send from >>> there. I learned that new subscribers are moderated, which seems >>> sensible given the level of trolling and disruption, and have since >>> improved the prediction and become more confident about it. I have >>> since learned that HTML email with embedded email attachments aren't >>> allowed either, so, Moderators, please reject my earlier anonymous >>> submission(s). >>> >>> This is what I predict the Wikimedia organizational chart will look >>> like in one year's time: >>> >>> https://i.ibb.co/HPzpqLt/WMF-orgchart.png >>> >>> Please critique it! If you are running for the Board of Directors, I >>> am especially interested in your critique of this prediction. >>> >>> Thank you! >>> >>> -Will >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and >>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l >>> Public archives at >>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/DURUHZ3WN7QBQSXWLUVU7ZRLDWHV42X2/ >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], guidelines at: > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/ZMPBBKEMIKICK2KLLZ466VB4V7PAHHWN/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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