Hey,
Don't worry, we indeed have a lot of time till the next elections, but as
this issue had been raised during the last elections - and we decided that
we can't change the rules few weeks before the elections, now I want to
raise the discussion enough time before.
According to the current
Hi Itzik,
If I understand you correctly, you are asking about whether WMF and
thematic organization bylaws should allow employees to vote in trustee
elections for their own orgs.
I can see how this could create interesting conflict-of-interest problems.
However, in all non-autocratic republics
Tilman, thanks for those notes.
There was discussion awhile ago about involving the community in quarterly
reviews, and I have some questions and comments about this review, mostly
for Lila.
However, I would like to see the notes from the group mentioned at the
end of the quarterly review before
Pine,
As far as I know, government employees in most of the countries can vote
only if they are citizens. So yes, of course we are not taking there
democratic voice. As I didn't said a staff member can't vote because he is
a staff member. Just saying that it is not enough to be a staff member in
Hoi,
Article review is important. The argument presented is that it needs action
in the light of fewer people involved in article review. The reality is
that at present only a subset of the articles are reviewed and only in a
few Wikipedias. In addition to this, these people all use fixed
The title should be WMF Board of Trustee elections.
Itzik - Wikimedia Israel, 05/10/2014 09:40:
For example, last elections there were 1809 valid votes.
And this is the issue we should be talking about: the ~99.5 % abstention
rate.*
By comparison, the
number of WMF staff this days is 218,
Is there a way in which people who volunteer, but not through editing or
coding, can vote? For example, Wikimania volunteers from this year, or
those who volunteer time with financial or administrative matters rather
than through adding content?
On 5 Oct 2014 11:44, Federico Leva (Nemo)
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 3:44 AM, Federico Leva (Nemo) nemow...@gmail.com
wrote:
(*) No official numbers exist... but I already opened one thread on
transparency this week.
Just to clarify so that I know what you're looking and can try and
prioritize it. You are looking for the total number of
I think the issue is that the employee vote is now a significant proportion
of the electorate. When this was originally set up, nobody complained too
loudly about giving WMF staff the vote simply because their numbers were
small and they were too small a constituency to sway the result on their
A completely un deduped (and so is double+ counting anyone who is eligible
on multiple wikis because of activity there) number is 207911 for 2013.
Caveats:
This number is quick and dirty and 'reasonable' as a starting point but far
from perfect, among other things:
- It doesn't include 100%
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
it...@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
Pine,
As far as I know, government employees in most of the countries can vote
only if they are citizens. So yes, of course we are not taking there
democratic voice. As I didn't said a staff member can't
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:09 AM, Craig Franklin cfrank...@halonetwork.net
wrote:
I think the issue is that the employee vote is now a significant proportion
of the electorate. When this was originally set up, nobody complained too
loudly about giving WMF staff the vote simply because their
(For other readers: Pine appears to refer to the publication of the
minutes from the quarterly review meeting for the Wikimedia
Foundation's Grantmaking team, announced in a separate thread at
https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimedia-l/2014-October/074824.html
)
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 1:14
James -- this is really great, thank you for sharing.
On Thu, Oct 2, 2014 at 4:24 PM, James Heilman jmh...@gmail.com wrote:
Article published by the journal Open Medicine
http://www.openmedicine.ca/article/viewFile/562/564
Will soon be pubmed indexed. Editorial regarding the efforts are here
How are we doing on SUL finalization anyway? If I remember correctly the
lead on this is Dan so I'm pinging him.
Pine
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On 05.10.2014 14:24, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
it...@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
Pine,
IMO the minimum thresholds should be set at levels such that any staff
member who has employed for a reasonable period of time is likely to
be
On 5 October 2014 13:35, Yaroslav M. Blanter pute...@mccme.ru wrote:
On 05.10.2014 14:24, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Itzik - Wikimedia Israel
it...@wikimedia.org.il wrote:
Pine,
IMO the minimum thresholds should be set at levels such that any staff
I do not think it is a good idea to have community members directly
involved in these meetings. First off, any community member who
participates is in no way representative of the broad international
community as a whole, so granting individuals access gives them a radically
disproportionate
I agree to a point. I think if we had some carefully chosen people
involved, like a representative from the FDC in the case of Grantmaking, or
a representative from the proposed Technology Committee in the case of a
Product or Engineering team, there might be some value. I agree though that
the
Minutes and slides from Wednesday's quarterly review meeting of the
Foundation's Core features (Flow) team are now available at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Core_features/October_2014
.
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller
Minutes and slides from Wednesday's quarterly review meeting of the
Foundation's Editing (formerly VisualEditor) team can now be found at
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/WMF_Metrics_and_activities_meetings/Quarterly_reviews/Editing/October_2014
.
On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Erik Moeller
Thanks for the timely question! We are actually just double checking the
numbers in our FY 2013-14 Fundraising Report right now. We are aiming to
publish it toward the end of the week.
On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 6:56 AM, rupert THURNER rupert.thur...@gmail.com
wrote:
that would be indeed valuable
On 10/05/2014 08:24 AM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
I checked a few of the WMF admin staff who have been employed more
than a year, and many dont look likely to reach the 300 threshold,
even with wikitech and foundation wikis included.
An interesting question, I think, is /whether/ anyone from
On 5 October 2014 20:51, Marc A. Pelletier m...@uberbox.org wrote:
On 10/05/2014 08:24 AM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote:
I checked a few of the WMF admin staff who have been employed more
than a year, and many dont look likely to reach the 300 threshold,
even with wikitech and foundation
On 5 October 2014 10:00, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
How are we doing on SUL finalization anyway? If I remember correctly the
lead on this is Dan so I'm pinging him.
Hey Pine,
Progress is pretty good. As noted in Erik's presentation at Monthly Metrics
last Thursday, we're wrapping up
Thanks Dan. Can you share an approximate completion date?
(What is with half of the WMF staff responding to routine emails on
weekends? All you workaholics and overachievers...) :)
Pine
On Oct 5, 2014 8:55 PM, Dan Garry dga...@wikimedia.org wrote:
On 5 October 2014 10:00, Pine W
On 5 October 2014 22:08, Pine W wiki.p...@gmail.com wrote:
Thanks Dan. Can you share an approximate completion date?
Not at this stage, I'm afraid. I will only give a date when I can say with
some confidence that we can meet it, and there are too many free variables
for me to be able to say
Just to reiterate, the engineering work is almost done. We do plan to begin
the community engagement and announcements in 2014, but it's going to take
a while to make sure everyone's contacted and to give them time to digest
the announcement and act accordingly.
As we're almost done with the
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