Hi all, I expected more discussion on this. Although, Subhashish reposted this on Wikimania mailing list and asked some really good questions.
I agree with Subha that if an affiliate decides to send someone to Wikimania then the whole selection process should be transparent and also some reporting guidelines should be established similar to Wikimania. All this can help ensure trust of the wider Wikimedia community in our processes and decisions. I do want to hear why was it deemed necessary for the WMIN President to be present at that informal meetup during Wikimania. I do know that for some other Chapters whose chairperson's were not attending Wikimania, some editor Board/EC member attended the meetup on their behalf. I expect to hear more about this. Regards Satdeep Gill Community Outreach Coordinator, Wikimedia Foundation <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/New_Readers> Co-founder, Punjabi Wikimedians <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Punjabi_Wikimedians> Member, Affiliations Committee <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Affiliations_Committee> Member, Language Committee <https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Language_committee> On Fri, 27 Jul 2018 at 17:30, Bodhisattwa Mandal < bodhisattwa.rg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > WMIN chapter president Rahul Deshmukh attended Wikimania 2018 in Cape Town > without being selected for any type of scholarship. My question is why was > he sent to the conference depriving other community members from India who > were in the waiting list. > > He spoke in the informal chairpersons' meetup for few minutes. The meeting > doesn't require president of the organization's presence, and already there > were 2 EC member of WMIN present, who could have attended the meeting. > > To me, this is utter misuse of power and abuse of donation money. > > Thanks, > Bodhisattwa > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimediaindia-l/attachments/20180727/0bc24b91/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > > > ------------------------------ > > End of Wikimediaindia-l Digest, Vol 1465, Issue 1 > ************************************************* >
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