[Foundation-l] Community of the Wikimedian Projects

Sun Apr 27 05:32:22 UTC 2008

Geoffrey Plourde wrote:
> Forgive me if I am missing something... but isn't this kind of bureaucratic?
>   
That's an understatement.  As such it's exactly the kind of thing that 
some of us who are promoting the volunteer council would want to avoid.  
I think this idea has much less chance of getting anywhere.

Ec
> From: Milos Rancic 
> Subject: [Foundation-l] Community of the Wikimedian Projects
>
> As the previous proposal failed, I am able to make a different approach to
> the issue related to the common body of Wikimedian projects. Proposal below
> is at the Meta page [[Community of the Wikimedian
> Projects<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Community_of_the_Wikimedian_projects>]].
> Of course, it is a draft. According to my proposal, we have time until the
> end of June to decide what to do with the proposal.
>
> * * *
>
> As the creation of Volunteer
> Council<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicouncil>(named as
> Wikicouncil at the beginning) failed (Board
> didn't want to create such
> body<http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-April/041917.html>),
> there is a possibility for changing the approach for the creation of the
> common body for the Wikimedian projects. Proposal on this page describes the
> Community of the Wikimedian Projects (CWP).
>
> In short, projects interested in coordination of their activities would
> would be able to opt-in the body where they would be able to make decisions
> related to all projects. Examples of such decisions may be granting bot
> status at one place, increasing communication level between projects,
> coordinating activities around particular WikiProjects and whatever else
> which some or all projects from this group see as their common interes.
etc.

etc.