they have the time available to take on the role?
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> Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2021 00:17:24 -0400
> From: Benjamin Lees
> Subject: [Wikimedia-l] Re: Concerns about BoT Election Q
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On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 11:18 AM Gerard Meijssen
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> 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
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
Since candidates are supposed to begin answering on July 7th, I would like
to nudge the conversation towards a poll of candidates and interested
community members, on an actionable proposal to use the longer list of
questions:
As a candidate, I am of course not the one who decides what questions
get asked, but I will share my opinion on some of your points:
On dom, 2021-07-04 at 12:50 +0100, Nosebagbear wrote:
> First and foremost, is that of the questions that received
> significant Community endorsement, only one was
Hoi,
Fae a few points..First board members are volunteers like you and all the
things that are asked of a candidate represents a significant amount of
time. In addition there are timelines and the notion of a process to
improve questions is not really feasible. Also I said it before, many of
the
Hoi, some reflections:
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
Really, there shouldn't be any "selection". All of the community questions
should be put over, and the candidates then may choose to answer any or all
of them. If a candidate does not answer a question, people can then take
from that what they will.
This is a community selection process. There is
Hi,
On Mon, Jul 5, 2021 at 8:18 AM Fæ wrote:
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> "What do you think about the Wikimedia Foundation using funds for
> purposes not related to Wikimedia projects?"
> - The WMF uses funds for all sorts of things unrelated to the specific
> projects, for example, the Commercial paid-for API is an
I'm surprised at how odd the "selected questions" read,[1] which will
probably result in off-topic or wooly answers by the candidates unless
they have "abstracts" somewhere to unpack the coded language.
"What is your opinion on the claim of autonomy by Wikipedia
communities and the attempts of
I also want to note something about question 10.
It's incredibly amusing that, on a list of questions for arguably the most
senior position the community has any say in, names for Wikimedia projects
(and referring to Wikimedia projects as a whole) are written incorrectly.
The bit: "WikiSpecies,
As a candidate, I would be happy to work with the full list of questions,
and to choose which ones I want to answer. Whether we each prioritize the
harder or easier questions could be useful information for the electors.
Potential drawbacks are that our responses might be harder to compare if
the
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