[Wikimedia-l] Re: Foundation org chart

[Željko Blaće]

On Tuesday, July 6, 2021, Ciell Wikipedia  wrote:

> Thank you Bill, I always find organisation charts very much enlightening,
> and have been missing something like it for the WMF for some time now.
>

I feel the same. We need much much more of diagramatic content and higher
level of organizational understanding for all Wikimedia contributors.



> I think all the departments of the WMF-side are equal, right? For
> instance, legal has no higher 'status' then fundraising or research:
> employees are equals, just with a different function in the
> organisation.Therefore all the different departments should be presented in
> a horizontal line, not a vertical one, like in this one
>  for
> example.
>

Kind of good point, but maybe scale (same size) is enough to represent
equals, rather than direction/orientation? Not an expert.

BTW.
.svg file export would be best
for the posibility of translation
within Wikimedia Commons ;-)


Best, Z.


> Vriendelijke groet,
> Ciell
>
>
> Op di 6 jul. 2021 om 01:03 schreef Bill Takatoshi  >:
>
>> Earlier today I tried to predict what the WMF org chart will look
>> like, but I wasn't confident about my suggestion, so I created a new
>> email account, subscribed it to wikimedia-l, and tried to send from
>> there. I learned that new subscribers are moderated, which seems
>> sensible given the level of trolling and disruption, and have since
>> improved the prediction and become more confident about it. I have
>> since learned that HTML email with embedded email attachments aren't
>> allowed either, so, Moderators, please reject my earlier anonymous
>> submission(s).
>>
>> This is what I predict the Wikimedia organizational chart will look
>> like in one year's time:
>>
>>  https://i.ibb.co/HPzpqLt/WMF-orgchart.png
>>
>> Please critique it! If you are running for the Board of Directors, I
>> am especially interested in your critique of this prediction.
>>
>> Thank you!
>>
>> -Will
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[Benjamin Lees]

On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 11:18 AM Gerard Meijssen 
wrote:

> You have to appreciate that fulfilling the role of a board member of the
> Wikimedia Foundations is very time consuming. The candidates that may be
> chosen from are all volunteers, they have a day job. The argument for
> having only eleven questions as given to us candidates was: there is a
> limit to the number of questions because otherwise it will require too much
> of your time.
>
> Is this the right approach?  If this is a time-consuming role, it doesn't
seem entirely unreasonable that the selection process would also be a
little bit time-consuming.  I'm not saying the election needs to be an
endurance marathon, but the election should reflect the job.

Being able to decide which questions are worth answering and which are best
ignored is an important skill.  For that matter, so is being able to
reframe questions to address the points that you think are important, as
you have done here.

It's important also for board candidates to be able to answer questions
that aren't the ones that are curated for them.  The Foundation is the
board's main contact with the outside world, but it shouldn't be the only
one, as the Community Affairs Committee is a proper acknowledgment of.
Only listening to the people in the room with you leads to iceberg warnings
that go unheeded, as we've seen enough of lately.  Even the very wise
cannot see all ends, and all that.

Benjamin
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Foundation org chart

[Gerard Meijssen]

Hoi.
One reason why I am a candidate for the board of the WMF is that in my
opinion one function is lacking. There is no reflection of the fact that
all that we do is to share the sum of all knowledge. It is not only about
the creation of content but also about sharing the sum all the knowledge
that is available to us.

For obvious reasons, the contributors to the projects are heard. I do not
subscribe to the notion that the "projects" need to be in the
organisational chart. With 300 languages and potentially multiple projects
for each language it is impossible to have equity among these projects. The
point that I have made repeatedly: Commons is not useful in any language
but English, this does not need to be as there is software that works
equally well in any language dependent on the availability of labels in
Wikidata. This is just one example, there are more.
Thanks,
  GerardM

On Tue, 6 Jul 2021 at 01:04, Bill Takatoshi  wrote:

> Earlier today I tried to predict what the WMF org chart will look
> like, but I wasn't confident about my suggestion, so I created a new
> email account, subscribed it to wikimedia-l, and tried to send from
> there. I learned that new subscribers are moderated, which seems
> sensible given the level of trolling and disruption, and have since
> improved the prediction and become more confident about it. I have
> since learned that HTML email with embedded email attachments aren't
> allowed either, so, Moderators, please reject my earlier anonymous
> submission(s).
>
> This is what I predict the Wikimedia organizational chart will look
> like in one year's time:
>
>  https://i.ibb.co/HPzpqLt/WMF-orgchart.png
>
> Please critique it! If you are running for the Board of Directors, I
> am especially interested in your critique of this prediction.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -Will
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[Wikimedia-l] Wikimedia Italy reports for 2020

[Iolanda Pensa]

Dear all,
please find in the Wikimedia Affiliates Data Portal the Wikimedia Italy reports 
for 2020.

This year we produced for the first time our social report and we plan to 
continue with this complex but very relevant and transparent practice.
My very best regards,
iolanda 


Iolanda Pensa
President of Wikimedia Italia 
On behalf of Wikimedia Italia board and team

Our activity report 
https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/File:Bilancio_sociale_2020_ING.pdf 

and financial report https://wiki.wikimedia.it/wiki/Bilancio_consuntivo_2020/en 
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[Wikimedia-l] Re: Foundation org chart

[Ciell Wikipedia]

Thank you Bill, I always find organisation charts very much enlightening,
and have been missing something like it for the WMF for some time now.

I think all the departments of the WMF-side are equal, right? For instance,
legal has no higher 'status' then fundraising or research: employees are
equals, just with a different function in the organisation.Therefore all
the different departments should be presented in a horizontal line, not a
vertical one, like in this one
 for
example.

Vriendelijke groet,
Ciell


Op di 6 jul. 2021 om 01:03 schreef Bill Takatoshi :

> Earlier today I tried to predict what the WMF org chart will look
> like, but I wasn't confident about my suggestion, so I created a new
> email account, subscribed it to wikimedia-l, and tried to send from
> there. I learned that new subscribers are moderated, which seems
> sensible given the level of trolling and disruption, and have since
> improved the prediction and become more confident about it. I have
> since learned that HTML email with embedded email attachments aren't
> allowed either, so, Moderators, please reject my earlier anonymous
> submission(s).
>
> This is what I predict the Wikimedia organizational chart will look
> like in one year's time:
>
>  https://i.ibb.co/HPzpqLt/WMF-orgchart.png
>
> Please critique it! If you are running for the Board of Directors, I
> am especially interested in your critique of this prediction.
>
> Thank you!
>
> -Will
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[Wikimedia-l] Africa Wiki Challenge _Call for Feedback

[Ruby D-Brown]

Hello Everyone,

We are pleased to let you know that we have come to a successful end
of the Africa
Wiki Challenge Contest
. More than *1.6K
articles* were created from participants in over* 12 countries* and more
than *500 images* of landmarks were uploaded on Wikimedia Commons.

We appreciated each and everyone who participated or supported the project
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organize such campaigns in future. Kindly share your feedback through this
survey

It
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Your feedback is highly appreciated.

[1] Survey-
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Regards,
-- 
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[proci . wiki]

While it may well be that other people in the WMF decide some of those issues, 
the 4 community-elected board members are the only people the community can 
elect in the WMF (afaik). We can't even elect the Committee that decides which 
questions we can ask to prospective board candidates.

So really this is a bit like the questions asked to US presidential candidates. 
Many things are outside their control (eg fall upon Congress or the states), 
but people still ask questions about things that matter to them. Similarly, 
many of those questions matter to many members in the community. I think board 
candidates should answer some of them. Not necessarily all 52, but answering 
the at least ~10 most popular ones would seem reasonable. People want to know 
where candidates stand on those issues.

The board passes an annual resolution for the budget, so I'd say Q47 is 
relevant. Even if the board won't be passing a resolution on mobile 
communications directly, they still decide the budget that goes towards such 
issues, and decides the CEO who will pick the staff that deal with more 
lower-level issues. After all, the board won't be passing a resolution on 
Wikispecies or Wikinews either, yet a question about that made it in. A common 
generic question on diversity is asked, but the more relevant, specific 
question about diversity concerns in the WMF staff team was omitted. I find it 
hard to understand any consistency in the questions picked. It may help me 
understand if the relevant Committee explained the process they used to choose.
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