[Wikipedia-l] Re: Bylaws
Anthere
anthere8 at yahoo.com
Sun Jan 25 10:31:28 UTC 2004
Ray Saintonge a écrit:
> Anthere wrote:
>
>> We are currently trying to translate the bylaws (thanks Jeff !)
>>
>> A paragraph raised my attention
>>
>> A. CONTRIBUTING ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP: Active membership in this
>> Foundation shall be limited to volunteers who have contributed to any
>> Wikimedia project prior to the election ballot request deadline after
>> their application for membership and payment of annual dues. All
>> active members shall have the right to vote in this Foundation at any
>> membership vote for the Contributing Active Member Representative to
>> the Board of Trustees.
>>
>> Why shall only those contributing before the election be considered
>> members ? What about all those who will join next month ? Did I
>> misunderstand something here ?
>
>
> I think that this paragraph in the draft was needlessly convoluted. If
> one basically defines an "active member" as a person who has contributed
> to any Wikimedia project article, a "paid-up member" is then an active
> member who has paid annual dues. Defining "members" is more direct than
> defining "memberships" since the latter is nothing more than the status
> of being a member. We also need to avoid confusion between the words
> "contributor" and "donor", and that distinction should be made clear in
> a definitions article. Our practice has been to use "contributor" for a
> person who has written or edited articles, and to use "donor" for a
> person who has given money. I had to read the second sentence several
> times to make sense of it; whet it seems to say is that every member,
> wheteher or not he has paid dues, has the right to vote for this position.
I agree it was perhaps unclear...since the difference between the two
types of contributors have been raised in the talk page on fr:
It is apparently still unclear
Here is a pasted comment from fr
Question : quelle différence entre "membre actif contributeur" et
"membre actif volontaire" ?
Answer 1 : premiers payent leur droit de cotisation et peuvent voter,
les second ne payent pas et ne peuvent pas voter
Answer 2 : ce n'est pas cela: dans les statuts tels qu'ils sont proposés
il y a 2 administrateurs représentant des membres. les membres actifs
volontaires ne peuvent participer au vote que d'un seul, les membres
actifs contributeurs peuvent voter pour les 2. jeffdelonge
> A provision that limits voting rights to those who were members when the
> election is called, or who have been members at least 30 days (or some
> other appropriate time period) is reasonable. It helps in preventing a
> flood of last minute members whose only purpose for joining is to
> support some person in his election bid.
>
> Ec
agreed
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