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1. WMUA chapter mailing list switched to 'read-only' mode
(Pavlo Shevelo)
2. Re: WMUA chapter mailing list switched to 'read-only' mode
(Manuel Schneider)
3. Re: WMUA chapter mailing list switched to 'read-only' mode
(Federico Leva (Nemo))
4. Re: WMUA chapter mailing list switched to 'read-only' mode
(Pavlo Shevelo)
5. Re: WMUA chapter mailing list switched to 'read-only' mode
(Manuel Schneider)
6. Re: WMUA chapter mailing list switched to 'read-only' mode
(Ziko van Dijk)
7. Re: WMUA chapter mailing list switched to 'read-only' mode
(Pavlo Shevelo)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:36:24 +0300
From: Pavlo Shevelo <pavlo.shevelo(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <Wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [Wikimedia-l] WMUA chapter mailing list switched to
'read-only' mode
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According to WMUA Board decision [1] from now on (today morning) and for
unlimited time period the one and only WMUA chapter mailing list [
WikimediaUA] [2] (which is very much like [Wikimedia-I]) is switched to
read-only mode for all community members but Board (7 persons) and Audit
Committee (+3 persons), who saved full access for them.
It's like conversion of [Wikimedia-l] into [WikimediaAnnounce-l], but with
much more severe (only for WMF Board announcements) limitations.
Interestingly (if somebody prefer) that moderators of [WikimediaUA] mailing
list from the times long before the said ruling are:
* 2 Board members (Board Chair and Executive director)
and
* 1 member of Audit Committee.
All moderators were appointed (no elections!) by ...Board decision.
As for now my question is pretty simple: is there any precedents known,
when chapter Board do some alike rulings? Does it seems appropriate?
If anybody will be interested in context (bigger picture etc.) that is why
it was done so (including formal and real causes & motivations), this
person will have to go deep into struggle:
* for openness ('clearness') of the WMUA Board;
* against unethical (and so, in that meaning immoral) behaviour of some
of WMUA Board members
* ...etc.
and [3] and [4] are some entry points for that ...'deepness'.
Sincerely,
Pavlo Shevelo
(my WPnick is the same :))
[1]
http://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%96%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F_%D0…
[2]
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaua
[3] See the Talk page for [1]
[4]
http://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%…
Sorry, all references are in Ukrainian (with Ukrainian titles, that's why
URLs are so long) but Google translate works reasonably well to give the
idea, at least for [1], which is most important
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:03:12 +0200
From: Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMUA chapter mailing list switched to
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Dear Pavlo,
as that list is dedicated to chapter business, the chapter may decide
how to use that list.
For open discussions of the ukranian language Wikimedia projects there
is WikiUK-l:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiuk-l
If there is a real need for a seperate list to discuss chapter business
which is open, not the project list and not controlled by the board I am
sure that the folks at WMF are happy to help with that. Maybe the new
list could then become WikimediaUA-l and the current WikimediaUA-l will
become WikimediaUA-Announce-l or similar. But this should be discussed
by the concerned community.
/Manuel
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Message: 3
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:45:48 +0200
From: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMUA chapter mailing list switched to
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Pavlo Shevelo, 18/08/2013 16:36:
As for now my question is pretty simple: is there
any precedents known,
when chapter Board do some alike rulings? Does it seems appropriate?
Sorry, but I think these questions are flawed. A better question is: do
the member of the chapter have a suitable and working place where to
discuss among themselves to carry out their duties and rights as members
of the chapters, as defined by the bylaws?
(One is not always easy to set up.)
If anybody will be interested in context (bigger picture etc.) that is
why
it was done so (including formal and real causes
& motivations), this
person will have to go deep into struggle:
* for openness ('clearness') of the WMUA Board;
* against unethical (and so, in that meaning immoral) behaviour of some
of WMUA Board members
* ...etc.
So that's *the* mailing list for all the internal discussions of the
board? If it's public, then these is indeed higher "transparency" than
in most chapters (not that this is necessarily a good thing); on the
other hand it does not replace an all-members discussion space.
Nemo
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Message: 4
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 18:47:40 +0300
From: Pavlo Shevelo <pavlo.shevelo(a)gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMUA chapter mailing list switched to
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Dear Manuel,
Thanks for your swift comment & advice, I appreciate (while I'm one of the
administrators at WikiUK-l, by the way :) ).
Forgive me for missing the detail which was obvious for me - I'm WMUA
member (from the moment of it legal registration back in 2009) so I'm from
inside WMUA as a project as well as 40+ more WMUA members (beside Board and
AC). In your wording - I'm well inside of "chapter business", the issue is
with the missing (or invalid?) process "the chapter may decide how to use
that list".
That was clear for me (and explained by me in local discussions - in said
mailing list and on community Portal) that if Board needs something only
for announcements ("WikimediaUA-Announce-l or similar"), they should
contact "folks at WMF" and arrange new, additional list (like WMF Board did
some years after creation of 'universal' list).
In addition to that nobody never settled in proper way, that [WikimediaUA]
is "the project list" (if WMUA is not the project by itself) and, moreover,
it should be "controlled by the board" to that extent as WMUA Board it
defined and settled for themselves.
So I remain with my question about
is there any precedents known, when chapter Board do some alike rulings?
Does it seems appropriate?
All more advices how to create alternative mailing list with help of:
* "folks at WMF"
* automatic services/stuff at Google (like Google groups etc.)
will be appreciated, but it's not the main focus of my interest.
Sincerely,
Pavlo
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 6:03 PM, Manuel Schneider <
manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch> wrote:
Dear Pavlo,
as that list is dedicated to chapter business, the chapter may decide
how to use that list.
For open discussions of the ukranian language Wikimedia projects there
is WikiUK-l:
https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikiuk-l
If there is a real need for a seperate list to discuss chapter business
which is open, not the project list and not controlled by the board I am
sure that the folks at WMF are happy to help with that. Maybe the new
list could then become WikimediaUA-l and the current WikimediaUA-l will
become WikimediaUA-Announce-l or similar. But this should be discussed
by the concerned community.
/Manuel
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Message: 5
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 17:58:13 +0200
From: Manuel Schneider <manuel.schneider(a)wikimedia.ch>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMUA chapter mailing list switched to
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Am 18.08.2013 17:47, schrieb Pavlo Shevelo:
is there any precedents known, when chapter Board
do some alike rulings?
all precedence known to me have been much less restrictive actions, such
as the WikimediaCH-l list to become a closed list due to some issues we
had with private information (unwillingly) disclosed on that list.
Nobody questioned that change.
Does it seems appropriate?
My personal opinion is that the board may decide so, under consideration
of what Nemo questioned: That the chapters community / members have an
appropriate place to conduct their work. This may be disputed as it was
the formerly open and public list which has been closed but it could
also be considered that WikiUK-l could act as such place as well.
So from my point of view it is really up to the community at
WikimediaUA-l and WikiUK-l whether WikiUK-l is an appropriate
replacement or if another list is needed due to this change.
/Manuel
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Message: 6
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 18:04:40 +0200
From: Ziko van Dijk <vandijk(a)wmnederland.nl>
To: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMUA chapter mailing list switched to
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Hello,
This is actually a good question for
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Chapters_Association/Research/Surv…
How do chapter boards make use of the board mailing list, and how about the
general mailing list of the association. Actually, the mailing list of
WMNL, Wikimedianl-l, doesn't show very much activity. Everyone can join and
post. But I can imagine scenarios in which a chapter decides to change
that.
Kind regards
Ziko
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2013/8/18 Pavlo Shevelo <pavlo.shevelo(a)gmail.com>
According to WMUA Board decision [1] from now on
(today morning) and for
unlimited time period the one and only WMUA chapter mailing list [
WikimediaUA] [2] (which is very much like [Wikimedia-I]) is switched to
read-only mode for all community members but Board (7 persons) and Audit
Committee (+3 persons), who saved full access for them.
It's like conversion of [Wikimedia-l] into [WikimediaAnnounce-l], but
with
much more severe (only for WMF Board
announcements) limitations.
Interestingly (if somebody prefer) that moderators of [WikimediaUA]
mailing
> list from the times long before the said ruling are:
> * 2 Board members (Board Chair and Executive director)
> and
> * 1 member of Audit Committee.
> All moderators were appointed (no elections!) by ...Board decision.
>
As for now my question is pretty simple: is there
any precedents known,
when chapter Board do some alike rulings? Does it seems appropriate?
If anybody will be interested in context (bigger picture etc.) that is
why
it was done so (including formal and real causes
& motivations), this
person will have to go deep into struggle:
* for openness ('clearness') of the WMUA Board;
* against unethical (and so, in that meaning immoral) behaviour of some
of WMUA Board members
* ...etc.
>
> and [3] and [4] are some entry points for that ...'deepness'.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Pavlo Shevelo
> (my WPnick is the same :))
>
> [1]
>
>
http://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%96%D1%88%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8F_%D0…
http://ua.wikimedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D1%96%D0%BA%D1%96%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%B4%D1%…
Sorry, all references are in Ukrainian (with Ukrainian titles, that's why
URLs are so long) but Google translate works reasonably well to give the
idea, at least for [1], which is most important
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Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 19:26:36 +0300
From: Pavlo Shevelo <pavlo.shevelo(a)gmail.com>
To: "Federico Leva (Nemo)" <nemowiki(a)gmail.com>
Cc: Wikimedia Mailing List <wikimedia-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] WMUA chapter mailing list switched to
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Oh Federico (or should I use Nemo as the name? :) ),
Seemingly you almost grasped (groked) what I'm talking about and that
"almost" is caused by my problems in English (it's not my native language
and I suffer from lack of practice :( ).
So we need some more clarification and let me start from the bottom up (as
of the text of your mail):
that's *the* mailing list for all the
internal discussions of the board?
If it's public, then these is indeed higher "transparency" than in most
chapters (not that this is necessarily a good thing);
Definitely NO, while we think (not only dream) about that level of
transparency. As I'm one of the believers, that "this is necessarily a good
thing", I dared even to propose that several times to Board members.
But from the very beginning of WMUA the Board has separate mailing list
(without archive, what is significant in some situations like change of
Board members) and in addition they build Board' wikisite which is closed
as well (only AC members ver granted by access - after long struggle so as
sorta gifted compromise, while it was never accepted by the community).
So said mailing list they ...occupy only for "Urbi et orbi" purposes or it
will be more exact to say only for "urbi" (strictly confidential for WMUA).
on the other hand it does not replace an
all-members discussion space.
YES it does replace or, to be more exact, "all-members discussion space" is
converted to Board announcement place (all others but AC is in "sit down
and listen" mode strictly).
better question is: do the member of the chapter
have a suitable and
working place where to discuss among themselves to carry out
their duties
and rights as members of the chapter
Since said ruling - not in the mailing list(s), while community Portal
survived (yet? the administrators there are ...surprise - Board and AC
members as well). As we all know discussions on the wiki (like Portals,
Village pumps etc.) doesn't eliminate the need of mailing list.
On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 6:45 PM, Federico Leva (Nemo) <nemowiki(a)gmail.com
wrote:
Pavlo Shevelo, 18/08/2013 16:36:
As for now my question is pretty simple: is there any precedents known,
when chapter Board do some alike rulings? Does it
seems appropriate?
Sorry, but I think these questions are flawed. A better question is: do
the member of the chapter have a suitable and working place where to
discuss among themselves to carry out their duties and rights as members
of
the chapters, as defined by the bylaws?
(One is not always easy to set up.)
> If anybody will be interested in context (bigger picture etc.) that is
why
it was
done so (including formal and real causes & motivations), this
person will have to go deep into struggle:
* for openness ('clearness') of the WMUA Board;
* against unethical (and so, in that meaning immoral) behaviour of some
of WMUA Board members
* ...etc.
So that's *the* mailing list for all the internal discussions of the
board? If it's public, then these is indeed higher "transparency" than in
most chapters (not that this is necessarily a good thing); on the other
hand it does not replace an all-members discussion space.
Nemo
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