Re: [Wikimedia-l] [Iberocoop] Wikimedia Portugal General Assembly

[Paulo Santos Perneta]

That's where the AffCom sent the plan to. I and others here at the
Wikimedia-l have been asking them to place it in some public location where
it can be accessible to everyone.

Paulo

Jaluj Wikipedista  escreveu no dia terça,
4/09/2018 à(s) 18:01:

> No permite acceder para leer. Deben poner enlaces accesibles.
>
> Andrea
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018, 07:56 GoEthe.wiki  wrote:
>
>> Dear all,
>>
>> As part of the roadmap AffCom agreed with us after they decided to
>> suspend some of our benefits within the Wikimedia Foundation programs
>> (https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/private/wikimediapt/2018-July/002625.html
>> ),
>> Wikimedia Portugal held an Extraordinary General Assembly on the 1st of
>> September, and a board was elected. This board is identical, with one
>> exception, to the board elected in April of this year and that I announced
>> in a similar message (
>> https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-April/090073.html
>> ).
>>
>> The board is now composed of:
>>
>>-
>>
>>Gonçalo Themudo, president
>>-
>>
>>André Barbosa, treasurer
>>-
>>
>>Ana Cravo, secretary
>>
>>
>> We also elected members for the other governing bodies of the chapter:
>>
>> General Assembly
>>
>>-
>>
>>Paulo Santos Perneta, president
>>-
>>
>>Carlos Barradas, secretary
>>-
>>
>>João Carvalho, member
>>
>> Fiscal Council
>>
>>-
>>
>>Waldir Pimenta, president
>>-
>>
>>Manuel de Sousa, secretary
>>-
>>
>>João Lemos, member
>>
>>
>>
>> The general assembly also approved the financial statement of our annual
>> report, which is published at
>> https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Relatórios/Anual/2017. An English
>> translation is provided at
>> https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Relatórios/Anual/2017/en.
>>
>> The minutes of the meeting are available at
>> https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Reuni%C3%B5es/XI_Assembleia-Geral (in
>> Portuguese only).
>>
>>
>> We are currently working on the final step of the roadmap, which is a
>> plan for active contributor involvement and improved chapter capacity. The
>> first part is to gather signatures of at least 20 chapter members who are
>> active contributors to Wikimedia projects, which is currently underway at
>> https://pt.wikimedia.org/wiki/Utilizador:GoEThe/P%C3%A1gina_de_apoio_%C3%A0_Wikimedia_Portugal.
>> We will keep you informed of the second part, once we have developed it.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Gonçalo
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[Wikimedia-l] Movement Strategy Process: Community update August 2018

[Nicole Ebber]

Dear Wikimedians,

The last time you heard from us was when we announced the first round
of Working Group members right before Wikimania in Cape Town. [1]

From then to now, we have focused on supporting the Working Groups
with their initial steps. At the same time, we have worked on some
reports to bring more information about the ongoing process to the
wider public. We are thankful for all the feedback we have received so
far on different channels and hope that you can find answers to many
of the raised questions in these reports:

If you are interested in knowing more about the application process,
and how Working Group members were selected, you can now read our
reports on the application process [2], and the role of the Steering
Committee in evaluating the applications [3] on the Movement Strategy
Portal.

During Wikimania, about half of the announced Working Groups members
were present, which gave them the chance to meet in person and
initiate their conversations. You can read more about what happened in
the Strategy Space at Wikimania in our report[4]. To all of you who
visited the Strategy Space and were curious about the Movement
Strategy Process, whether it was through listening, asking challenging
questions, or providing us with perspectives from your communities: A
very big thank you!

After Wikimania, throughout August, group calls and virtual
conversations have taken place in all Working Groups. Before they will
be able to continue working on content, they have been tasked to
define their own diversity gaps and suggest solutions to them. You can
consult the Diversification Report [5] to see how this effort is being
supported.

The immediate next steps (see the timeline [6]) in the Movement
Strategy Process are concentrated on the diversification of the
Working Groups with a deadline at the end of September. In October, we
plan to kick off the scoping process for the Working Groups and
initiate a community consultation to collect more perspectives for
them. After that, the groups will start to develop concrete
recommendations for change on the structural level of our movement in
key thematic areas, and how we might implement this change in the
future.

As always, your feedback is appreciated.

On behalf of the Core Team,
Kaarel and Nicole


[1] https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2018-July/090704.html
[2] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_Groups/Application_process_report
[3] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/People/Steering_Committee
[4] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Wikimania_Movement_Strategy_Space_report
[5] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Working_Groups/Diversification_process_interim_report
[6] 
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Strategy/Wikimedia_movement/2018-20/Process/Timeline#Working_Groups_timeline

-- 
Nicole Ebber
Adviser International Relations
Program Manager Wikimedia Movement Strategy
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
http://wikimedia.de

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Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMF and non-WMF funding for Wikimedia work

[Yair Rand]

As far as I can tell, the way that this is supposed to work is for there to
be no WMF influence on funds distribution.

"We affirm that all funds given to the Wikimedia movement are given in
support of our global projects... funds raised via the Wikimedia project
sites should be considered to be movement money, not the entitlement of a
particular organization or stakeholder. Decision-making about funds
dissemination should be broad and inclusive, consistent with our mission,
vision and values. ... To support a broader and more inclusive
decision-making process for funds distribution, the Wikimedia Foundation
will create a volunteer-driven body (working title: the Funds Dissemination
Committee, or FDC) whose sole purpose will be to make recommendations to
the Wikimedia Foundation for funding activities and initiatives in support
of the mission goals of the Wikimedia movement. All funds raised via the
Wikimedia project sites will be distributed via the recommendations of the
FDC, with the exception of Wikimedia Foundation core operating costs and
the operating reserve as described above." -- Board of Trustees,
[[wmf:Resolution:Funds Dissemination Committee]]

Where are we on this? Since the 2015-16 annual plan the WMF hasn't been
filling out its FDC applications (to regular objections every annual plan
review and FDC election), and the Grants process pages on Meta are
prominently labeled "Wikimedia Foundation Grants". I'm having difficulty
finding out how the various Grants systems are run, but the IEG final
decisions are apparently made by WMF staff, and the FDC doesn't seem to be
directly involved in those?

I haven't found any retraction of the original board resolution, so I
assume that the current situation is a temporary setup until whatever
remaining obstacles are dealt with and the FDC is capable of fulfilling its
mandate. (I don't know what these obstacles might be. I think it would be
helpful if the WMF and/or Board would comment on this.) Although the WMF,
for the duration, appears to act as though it's their money to distribute
and makes many of the relevant decisions, that appears not to be the
(eventual) intended process.

(My apologies if some of this is inaccurate. The pages on Meta aren't well
organized, and it's hard to get a coherent picture of how things work.)

(Also, FWIW, I really think it would be a bad idea to directly fund content
creation or Signpost support.)

-- Yair Rand

‫בתאריך יום ב׳, 3 בספט׳ 2018 ב-22:07 מאת ‪Pine W‬‏ <‪wiki.p...@gmail.com
‬‏>:‬

> I apologize for the unusually large load of typos, especially misspelling
> Kaarel's name. Usually I get enough sleep but last night I didn't.
> Apparently my attention to detail is diminished.
>
> I'm rapidly spending my Wikimedia-l quota of 15 emails per calendar month,
> so if there is extensive discussion on this topic then I may ask that we
> move the conversation to a wiki page.
>
> Regards,
>
> Pine
> ( https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pine )
>
>
> On Mon, Sep 3, 2018 at 9:02 PM Pine W  wrote:
>
> > Hello colleagues,
> >
> > A topic which I feel that I should address again on this mailing list is
> > revenue for Wikimedia work, specifically WMF and non-WMF sources of
> revenue.
> >
> > I will start by talking about my personal situation, and then discuss
> some
> > related situations.
> >
> > I am currently requesting a grant from WMF. I cannot afford afford to
> work
> > on this project in a sustainable way without funding, and I feel that I
> am
> > making a request that is reasonably aligned with market rates for someone
> > with my current level of skills and knowledge, but I feel conflicted
> about
> > requesting funding from WMF because of the potential for difficulties
> > between WMF and the community, especially because of the potential that I
> > would be reluctant to express my views regarding WMF due to fear of
> losing
> > WMF funding. (I'm not linking to my grant request here because I don't
> want
> > this email to give the impression that I'm using this topic to ask for
> > community endorsements for my grant request.)
> >
> > Similarly, *The Signpost *is labor-intensive to produce, and I would like
> > for funding to be available for the more prolific *Signpost *contributors
> > so that they have a good reason to treat their labor for The Signpost as
> > part time jobs. However, it would be difficult to maintain the editorial
> > independence of *The Signpost *from WMF if the contributors (especially
> > contributors to the "News and Notes" and "In the Media" sections, and the
> > contributors who are responsible for the overall editing and publication
> of *The
> > Signpost*) received funding from WMF.
> >
> > There are many other areas in the Wikimedia community where there is
> > enough work that is not getting done by volunteers, and/or where
> volunteers
> > can put in so many hours that they can get burnt out, that I think that
> > non-WMF funding would be good to make available for contributors