Well, that's pretty categoric. While it is worth noting that many of the votes likely came with caveats, or suggestions for improvement - it is also a massive vote in favour of the concept of a Charter and Global Council, and against the idea that the WMF should be the sole body in the movement responsible for, well, anything really.
There is a clear way forward now for the WMF to bring itself in line with the vast majority of the community that it claims to work with as an equal partner, and start working with the MCDC, or whoever there is to talk to if the MCDC is now disbanded, to look at the feedback on the present draft and create a final version. Perhaps we can hear less about how everything has changed since the start of the strategy process 8 years ago (it hasn't), or how there isn't money (there is), or how 'form should follow function' (well, perhaps it should, but also let's not have unrealistic and single-sided expectations where every proposal for change is made to provide a clear and eloquent narrative while the status quo continues to evade scrutiny). Regards, Chris (User: The Land) On Thu, Jul 18, 2024 at 3:40 PM Charter Electoral Commission < c...@wikimedia.org> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > After carefully tallying both individual and affiliate votes, the Charter > Electoral Commission is pleased to announce the final results of the > Wikimedia Movement Charter voting. > > As communicated by the Charter Electoral Commission > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter#Thank_you_for_your_participation_in_the_Movement_Charter_ratification_vote!>, > we reached the quorum for both Affiliate and individual votes by the time > the vote closed on July 9, 23:59 UTC. We thank all 2,451 individuals and > 129 Affiliate representatives who voted in the ratification process. Your > votes and comments are invaluable for the future steps in Movement > Strategy. > > The final results of the Wikimedia Movement Charter > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter> ratification voting > held between 25 June and 9 July 2024 are as follows: > > Individual vote: > > Out of 2,451 individuals who voted as of July 9 23:59 (UTC), 2,446 have > been accepted as valid votes. Among these, 1,710 voted “yes”; 623 voted > “no”; and 113 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral votes don’t > count towards the total number of votes cast, 73.30% voted to approve the > Charter (1710/2333), while 26.70% voted to reject the Charter (623/2333). > > Affiliates vote: > > Out of 129 Affiliates designated voters who voted as of July 9 23:59 > (UTC), 129 votes are confirmed as valid votes. Among these, 93 voted > “yes”; 18 voted “no”; and 18 selected “–” (neutral). Because the neutral > votes don’t count towards the total number of votes cast, 83.78% voted to > approve the Charter (93/111), while 16.22% voted to reject the Charter > (18/111). > > Board of Trustees of the Wikimedia Foundation: > > The Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees voted not to ratify the > proposed Charter during their special Board meeting on July 8, 2024. The > Chair of the Wikimedia Foundation Board of Trustees, Natalia Tymkiv, shared > the result of the vote, the resolution, meeting minutes and proposed next > steps > <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_noticeboard/Board_resolution_and_vote_on_the_proposed_Movement_Charter#cite_note-1> > . > > With this, the Wikimedia Movement Charter in its current revision is not > ratified. > > We thank you for your participation in this important moment in our > movement’s governance. > > The Charter Electoral Commission, > > Abhinav619, Borschts, Iwuala Lucy, Tochiprecious, Der-Wir-Ing > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org, guidelines > at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines and > https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia-l > Public archives at > https://lists.wikimedia.org/hyperkitty/list/wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org/message/CORH7NNW2UTXQLJPLVPIBDBT6IVI2FGH/ > To unsubscribe send an email to wikimedia-l-le...@lists.wikimedia.org
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