Congratulations indeed! @Phoebe Ayers <[email protected]> from a quick glance at : https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_Board_of_Trustees diversity still remains an issue, but appointed seats have carried the most diverse profile it seems. Which to be honest make sense as elections are usually a reflection of the composition of the movement.
That being said, and it's a much larger discussion, I also believe we're trying to achieve too many things with that one board. At the same time you need a set of "business" skill set as you're running a very very large and global organisation, we want community representativeness and Diversity in a broad sense. All of that in 12 seats. I would love us to set what is the most important and work from there. We never could and never will be able to strike a balance between those three things :) -- Christophe On Fri, 11 Oct 2024 at 13:30, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > Congratulations to all the candidates, and thank you to everyone who ran > and put a lot of time into the process. And thanks especially to our > ongoing and outgoing trustees. The board is a ton of work, and one of the > hardest jobs in our movement. > > Re: processes, part of the idea, back in the day, for having two processes > for the affiliate votes and the general vote was that it could help ensure > geographical diversity (though I'm not sure that was true in practice). > These two processes were combined a couple of years ago. I'm not sure going > back to the old system is the right answer, but I do think it takes a > variety of strategies to get candidates who both understand Wikimedia and > the motivations of editors AND are interested in overseeing the governance > of a multi-million dollar organization -- which is the job we are asking > these folks to do. > > Best, > Phoebe (trustee 2010-2015) > > > On Fri, Oct 11, 2024, 05:49 Philip Kopetzky <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Well, congratulations to 4 people living in Western Europe. If this >> result doesn't get the Wikimedia Foundation to rethink their approach to >> how they select their board members, I don't know what will. >> >> I guess it's up to communities, affiliates and regional structures to >> create the change we want to see, noe more than ever. >> >> On Fri, 11 Oct 2024, 11:38 Katie Chan, <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> *You can find translations of this message or help translate this >>> message on Meta >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2024/Announcement/Results(short_version)>.* >>> >>> Hello all, >>> >>> Thank you to everyone who participated in the 2024 Wikimedia Foundation >>> Board of Trustees election >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2024>. >>> 6000 community members from more than 180 wiki projects have voted. >>> >>> The following four candidates were the most voted: >>> >>> - Christel Steigenberger >>> - Maciej Artur Nadzikiewicz >>> - Victoria Doronina >>> - Lorenzo Losa >>> >>> While these candidates have been ranked through the vote, they still >>> need to be appointed to the Board of Trustees. They need to pass a >>> successful background check and meet the qualifications outlined in the >>> Bylaws. New trustees will be appointed at the next Board meeting in >>> December 2024. >>> >>> Read the full announcement on Meta-Wiki >>> <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2024/Announcement/Results(long_version)> >>> >>> Best regards, >>> >>> The Elections Committee and Board Selection Working Group >>> >>> -- >>> Katie Chan >>> Any views or opinions presented in this e-mail are solely those of the >>> author and do not necessarily represent the view of any organisation the >>> author is associated with or employed by. >>> >>> >>> Experience is a good school but the fees are high. >>> - Heinrich Heine >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], 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/[email protected]/message/4HJ2INEFLQD233H3BQBWZ2BP65NN7FRY/ >>> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], 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/[email protected]/message/HXWD2ZSMZF46OVVBBZY45OSNJSHX5AYM/ >> To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list -- [email protected], 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/[email protected]/message/I4HEYUBQ2VTOLR332TI2BQD3OJSRXYJC/ > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
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