Hello Erik - I completely agree with you. It is too restrictive, and the functions within a Wikipedia community are not automatically preparing a person for the board. Kind regards Ziko
Am Fr., 24. Juli 2026 um 17:13 Uhr schrieb Erik Moeller via Wikimedia-l < [email protected]>: > On Fri, Jul 17, 2026 at 10:40 PM Margo Lee via Wikimedia-l > <[email protected]> wrote: > > The Board is now looking for specific feedback on the proposed > eligibility criteria. > > I concur with others that these criteria are too restrictive when it > comes to the demonstrated experience as a functionary. This turns the > process even more into a committee-style selection procedure that is > fairly closed off to folks who bring fundamentally different > perspectives (and, yes, disagreements) to the Board than the ones > already selected for through the functionary roles deemed sufficient > for eligibility. > > Wikimedia Foundation needs folks with relevant governance experience > for an organization of this scale, but it also needs voices that > challenge it and push it in new directions on the Board. The trick is > to find the right balance between those goals. Requiring that people > advance along an internal functionary ladder towards the possibility > of standing for trusteeship is not that balance; it is the kind of > requirement structure you find in institutions that drift towards > stagnancy and self-reinforcement, often out of institutionalized fear. > > A compromise proposal: > * Change the word "must" to "should" when it comes to the governance > experience criteria > * Require that candidates indicate comparable or equivalent experience > in their candidate profile if they do not meet these criteria. > > Will there be another iteration of these criteria that is responsive > to the feedback so far? > > Warmly, > > Erik > _______________________________________________ > 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/RI3AY4EFXNAFY7BMO6OX44FEZ5UIFR2E/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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