On 7 March 2013 09:54, Gordon Joly <[email protected]> wrote: > I see this as a confusion of the legal situation. I understand the > aspiration, of course. > > Board - a dozen, or so.......... > > Membership - several hundred > > Community - several thousand > > The board and the membership (since WMUK is company limited by guarantee) > have a legal footing. The wider community does not. Wouldn't it be nice if > all 5,000 joined the current membership?
It's always been the nature of the Wikimedia community that people get involved in those things they consider interesting or worthwhile and leave other things to other people. The membership is the subset of the community that has chosen to get involved with the chapter (a little more effort to ensure that everyone makes an informed choice about whether or not to get involved would be good - I know Katherine was working on a plan to increase membership, but I suspect it ended up taking a back seat during the governance stuff). _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
