If I understand it correctly, we will now have:
1. board appointed trustees who will derive
from chapters recommendations.
2. board appointed trustees who will derive
from a nomination committee headed by Sue
and containing two trustees (minimum) and
any number of others.
3. board appointed trustees who will derive
from some form of community election managed
by a board election administrative committee.
3. board appointed trustees who will derive
directly from the board itself (to replace
resigned board members during their term).
I have a few questions :-)
* * *
First, what precisely is the way in
which it is decided who will serve on
Sues nomination committee?
Will the workings of it be public? In
part, in whole, or not at all?
Will the committee internally operate
by vote, or is it merely there to advise
Sue on how to choose who to recommend
to the board?
* * *
Secondly, would it be a good idea to
either formalize as some form of
resolution or bylaw that when the
board directly appoints a replacement
to a community election derived trustee,
that the replacement would be in some
form "of like demeanour".
This is a vague and open question, but
I will leave it that way, deliberately,
to allow a wide range of approaches of
responding to it. 8-)
* * *
Lastly, is it conceivable that we may
have a situation whereby Sues committee
will have returned its recommendations
before the chapters have returned theirs
and the trustees derived from Sues
committees recommendations will decide
on whether or not to appoint whoever
the chapters recommend?
That is, to drive the point of the
question to the ground; is it possible
that "experts" will ratify the selection
of community trustees (accepting here
implicitly that chapter recommended
board appointed trustees are community
trustees)?
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Hello,
Given the results of the last elections, I have updated the board manual.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_board_manual
As usual, please do not hesitate to have a look at it. Update it when
you see it needs update. Check the language. Add new pictures or graphs
if appropriate. Clarify unclear statements. Ask questions if necessary.
And generally comment on how to improve it.
Thanks
Ant
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Colleagues,
I'm concerned. I'll start off by saying I'm not sore, just concerned.
I'll use my personal experience to illustrate the larger problem.
The elections require an account to have so many edits to gain
eligibility to vote. Now, I believe the intent was to be sure that
prior to voting, members are established. My previous account, which is
established, has enough edits. The password is scrambled. I think
everyone knows I'm established. My enwiki "NonvocalScream" does not
meet criteria. The account is unified, and is my permanent account is
not eligible on any project... yet.
The election committee informed me that I should attempt to contact a
sysadmin to recover the eligible account's password. This was
unsuccessful. (No response from sysadmin) So I contacted the elections
committee three days prior to the end of voting. No response from them
either.
The end state: I was unable to vote.
I don't want this to happen to anyone else. Being unable to vote while
being an very established member of the community should not happen.
This should not happen to anyone, ever.
My suggested changes for the next election vote:
Keep the criteria, but allow the voters table to be modified via a
transparent meta wiki page. Modified by those with the ability to check
stories, make sure there is no double voting.
Thoughts?
Jon
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SJ writes:
> I did some further condensing of language, and replaced the second
> person
> everywhere with the third person. I also tried to clarify a few
> sections
> that I found misleading or incomplete... For instance, when you
> email me
> through the wiki, I can see /your/ email address.
After a review of both Nathan's and SJ's revisions, I've decided to
adopt those revisions. The current version of the revised draft
policy can be found at:
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Draft_Privacy_Policy_June_19_2008
--Mike
Dear Wikimedians,
The 2008 Election Committee would like to announce the results of the
2008 Board Election of one seat to the Board of Trustees. We are
pleased to announce that the successful candidate was Ting Chen
(User:Wing).
Over the course of the three weeks of voting, 3019 valid ballots were
submitted by members of the various communities which make up
Wikimedia.
In previous elections, an approval system had been used, whereas this
year a new interface and tallying script was developed by Election
Committee member Kwan Ting Chan (User:KTC). The election system used
this year was a preferential system, whereby voters could rank
candidates according to their order of preference. These ballots were
then tallied using the 'Schulze Method' (also notably used by the
Debian project), in order to find the most preferred winner. To
determine the winner, each candidate is individually compared to each
of the other candidates, to determine which of the two was ranked
better by the most people. In every case, more voters ranked Ting Chen
higher than the other candidate than ranked him equal or lower than
the other candidate. As a result, Ting Chen represents the "Condorcet
winner" in this election, and so is the winner according to the chosen
Schulze Method.
More details about the Schulze Method may be found at its English
Wikipedia article:
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method>
Detailed election results can be found on the Meta election results page:
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Results>
The Election Committee would like to thank all of the candidates for
the time and effort they invested in the election process, and would
once again like to congratulate Ting Chen on his success.
Yours sincerely,
~Mark Ryan
on behalf of the Election Committee
Hi folks, two exciting announcements below from our CFOO here in San Francisco.
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Subject: [WMF Staff] Announcement , New Head of Major Gifts: Rebecca Handler
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:46:02 -0700
From: Veronique Kessler <vkessler(a)wikimedia.org>
I am pleased to welcome Rebecca Handler as Wikimedia Foundation's Major
Gifts Officer, and Rand Montoya as Head of Community Giving. Rebecca will start
officially on August 4. Rand will start officially on July 7.
Rebecca most recently consulted with the Branson School providing
fundraising recommendations, training Alumni in donation solicitation
aand writing fundraising materials. Prior to the Branson School,
Rebecca worked for the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco where
she implemented a comprehensive fundraising plan for the new $83MM
community center, managed a portfolio of Major Donor relationships and
directed an Annual Plan for the Center's preschools. Her previous
experience included work for the Lighthouse for the Blind & Visually
Impaired and Project Bread, a program raising money for emergency food
programs. Rebecca has an M.B.A from the University of San Francisco and
a B.A. in Anthropology from Brandeis University.
Rebecca will report to me and will be responsible for face-to-face
solicitations of donations from major donors. Rebecca will be working
for us 20 hours per week.
Rand has over 10 years experience working in the non-profit sector and
is an experienced development professional. He comes to us from the
American Red Cross (Bay Area Chapter) where he served as the Development
Services Manager. In that role, he directed a $3MM per year fundraising
program. Prior to that, Rand was with the Alta Bates Foundation as the
Information Systems Coordinator. Rand also spent 5 years with Hospice of
Marin where he worked in various database and fundraising capacities.
Rand holds a degree in Social Welfare from the University of California
at Berkeley.
Rand will report to me and will work immediately on this year's Online
Fundraising campaign.
Rebecca and Rand are thrilled to be joining us and garnering further support for
the Foundation's mission.
--
Veronique Kessler
Chief Financial and Operating Officer
Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.
vkessler(a)wikimedia.org
Office: (415) 839-6885 ext. 612
Support Free Knowledge today by donating to
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Donate
Congratulations to Ting Chen (User:Wing)! I would like to thank the
Election Committee and all volunteers and translators helping organize
a smooth process in this years election.
Ad Huikeshoven/Dedalus
Congratulations to Wing!
I'm really happy about the news, & so do most members of the Chinese
Wikimedia Community, I think
Good luck to Wing, and thank all those who had helped in the election.
Jeromy-Yu Chan
User:Yuyu
Laudamus quae laudentur
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 01:53:40 +0800
> From: "Mark Ryan" <ultrablue(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: [Foundation-l] 2008 Wikimedia Board Election results
> To: "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
> <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org>
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>
> Dear Wikimedians,
>
> The 2008 Election Committee would like to announce the results of the
> 2008 Board Election of one seat to the Board of Trustees. We are
> pleased to announce that the successful candidate was Ting Chen
> (User:Wing).
>
> Over the course of the three weeks of voting, 3019 valid ballots were
> submitted by members of the various communities which make up
> Wikimedia.
>
> In previous elections, an approval system had been used, whereas this
> year a new interface and tallying script was developed by Election
> Committee member Kwan Ting Chan (User:KTC). The election system used
> this year was a preferential system, whereby voters could rank
> candidates according to their order of preference. These ballots were
> then tallied using the 'Schulze Method' (also notably used by the
> Debian project), in order to find the most preferred winner. To
> determine the winner, each candidate is individually compared to each
> of the other candidates, to determine which of the two was ranked
> better by the most people. In every case, more voters ranked Ting Chen
> higher than the other candidate than ranked him equal or lower than
> the other candidate. As a result, Ting Chen represents the "Condorcet
> winner" in this election, and so is the winner according to the chosen
> Schulze Method.
>
> More details about the Schulze Method may be found at its English
> Wikipedia article:
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schulze_method>
>
> Detailed election results can be found on the Meta election results page:
> <http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2008/Results>
>
> The Election Committee would like to thank all of the candidates for
> the time and effort they invested in the election process, and would
> once again like to congratulate Ting Chen on his success.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> ~Mark Ryan
> on behalf of the Election Committee
>
>
>
Hello,
A set of users have sometimes expressed a desire to revise the
language proposal policy drafted by the language subcommittee.
Unfortunately, I haven't seen any conclusion or consensus on how to
change the policy in any of these discussions. Instead of discussing
it over and over, I suggest interested users collaborate on a
community-drafted policy at
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy/Community_draft>.
This would be drafted and approved by the community using whatever
system they chose.
(This message is entirely unofficial, not from the language
subcommittee. The subcommittee never sends official messages or
proposals.)
--
Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)