It's not exactly volunteer time. According to the documentation on Meta-Wiki[1] each of the 16 listed working group members is appointed for one year, and receives a stipend of $600 per year for their participation (estimated at 5 hours per week).
I am surprised to see that the working group includes one member who is site-banned from the English Wikipedia. Their site ban, enacted by ArbCom in 2016, was due to a history of sockpuppeting, self-promotion, autobiographical editing, misrepresenting their professional qualifications, copyright infringements, misrepresentation of sources and introducing numerous errors into scientific articles.[2][3] I would rather have seen that member apply for rehabilitation on the English Wikipedia first, before applying for and being given a role in a working group tasked with defining "good leadership" in the context of the Wikimedia movement. Andreas [1] https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Leadership_Development_Working_Group/Purpose_and_Structure [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_%28WMF%29#Should_the_WMF_have_rules_or_policies_for_when_banned_users_apply_for_or_are_part_of_the_team_that_administers_grants%3F [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Arbitration/Requests/Case/Wikicology&oldid=720092409#Findings_of_fact On Sun, Sep 18, 2022 at 12:05 PM Dan Garry (Deskana) <djgw...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 18 Sept 2022 at 10:36, Philip Kopetzky <philip.kopet...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> "* This project is specifically to develop a leadership development plan >> that the Community Development team, a team which has some great people on >> it and a serious possibility for good in supporting volunteers, can use to >> do their work effectively. *" - I'm a bit dismayed that we are using >> volunteer time in the name of the strategy process to provide a centralised >> WMF team with the knowledge they need to do their job. This is not what the >> 2030 strategy is about - it is a self-centred approach by a WMF team to >> stay relevant. >> > > If you don't think it's a worthwhile time investment for you, then you can > choose not to participate. If others do feel it's worthwhile, they can > choose to participate. If nobody chooses to participate, then I'd say > there's a lesson to be learnt about the relevance of the consultation, and > whether it was worth pursuing. > > I don't think we need to police the time of other volunteers. People can > choose what to do. >
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