Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffCom - Candidates for new mandate

2020-01-23 Thread Philip Kopetzky
Perhaps the self-re-electing AffCom members can elighten us what the future of AffCom will look like in the light of the recommendations. On Thu, 23 Jan 2020 at 10:57, Chris Keating wrote: > To me the main surprise is that AffCom continues to exist despite being > obviously broken. > > It does n

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffCom - Candidates for new mandate

2020-01-23 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
And the next big surprise, to me, is that so many of their members are genuinely good people, strongly engaged with the movement. Still, that committee is something close to a complete failure (if not a complete failure). It seems clear to me that the failure of AffCom most probably is not the faul

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffCom - Candidates for new mandate

2020-01-23 Thread Chris Keating
To me the main surprise is that AffCom continues to exist despite being obviously broken. It does not fulfill its mandate, it never has done, everyone knows this, yet still the WMF is happy to have a non-functional committee. Chris On Thu, Jan 23, 2020 at 12:23 AM Alessandro Marchetti via Wikime

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffCom - Candidates for new mandate

2020-01-22 Thread Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l
They made a tweet https://twitter.com/WikimediaAffCom/status/1206831003140005888 Alex Il giovedì 23 gennaio 2020, 01:32:40 CET, Paulo Santos Perneta ha scritto: It should also be here in the "News" section: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_CommitteeAnd visible elsewhere

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffCom - Candidates for new mandate

2020-01-22 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
It should also be here in the "News" section: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee And visible elsewhere in that page, probably close to where the "voting members" list is. But it's nowhere to seen in that page, as far as I know. I already knew that selection process should be goi

Re: [Wikimedia-l] AffCom - Candidates for new mandate

2020-01-22 Thread Alessandro Marchetti via Wikimedia-l
On January the 10th I put it in the home page of meta https://meta.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Template:Main_Page/WM_News&diff=prev&oldid=19695407 , I think I did the same last year but I was considering obvious we had received some mails and I did not pay attention. I am surprised there ar

[Wikimedia-l] AffCom - Candidates for new mandate

2020-01-22 Thread Paulo Santos Perneta
Not sure this made it to the Wikimedia-L - I couldn't find it easily, at least. But the candidates for the new mandate in AffCom are under discussion now (and have been for some time already. Interested ppl, please follow the link and comment/endorse/ask questions to them there: https://meta.wiki