Dear Dariusz, I am surprised your post has not attracted more attention. It's probably because you did not spell out what the adopted recommendation involves. It says (my emphases):[1]
*The Board of Trustees wants to improve the set of skills and the diversity contributed by newly selected trustees. For this reason, the Board has approved a new process to select two community-and-affiliate trustees this year. The objective is to have two trustees confirmed by October 1st. Affiliates will vote to pre-select 6 candidates. A community vote will decide who from these 6 candidates will be recommended for the two seats.* This is a fundamental change to the WMF board election process. Many people will feel that this further disenfranchises the volunteer community. Moreover, this pre-selection of electable candidates is performed by functionaries who are financially dependent on the Wikimedia Foundation. Arguably, this builds further conflicts of interest into the process – at a time when the Wikimedia Foundation already asks the public for more and more money each year.[2] The WMF simply no longer represents the volunteer community, and no longer even considers that to be its role – if it did, it would hold free elections. Personally, I think that is a shame. I guess if volunteers would like to have an organisation representing their interests, they will have to form one themselves. Best, Andreas [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/April_2022_Board_Election_process_in_2022 [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Fundraising_statistics On Wed, Apr 13, 2022 at 6:59 PM Dariusz Jemielniak <dar...@kozminski.edu.pl> wrote: > Hi everyone, > > The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees met between March 23-24 for our > first in-person meeting in over two years. It was an opportunity to welcome > our new CEO and several new trustees who have recently joined the Board. > Further updates from the meeting will be shared soon, I am writing now to > report on resolutions that the Board made regarding the upcoming 2022 > elections: > > > 1. > > We resolved to adopt recommendations related to the elections process > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/April_2022_Board_Election_process_in_2022>. > These recommendations have been developed as a result of feedback from the > community > Call for Feedback > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees/Call_for_feedback:_Board_of_Trustees_elections/Reports#Call_for_feedback:_Board_of_Trustees_elections_final_report> > that happened in January and further discussions by a Board Selection Task > Force. They will be implemented on a trial basis for the 2022 election. > 2. > > In service of maintaining continuity and stability in our leadership, > we resolved to make some modifications to our plans to expand the Board > > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/April_2022_-_Board_seats_in_2022_and_2023> > . > > > You can read about the details of these resolutions on Meta. We are happy > to discuss and answer any questions on the corresponding talk pages. > > Best, > > Dariusz on behalf of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, 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/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/ZLEFWZX2SWFX3LMZK4LSEZ2B6TNF34PZ/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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