[Foundation-l] A question for the Wikimania jury

Mon Mar 31 20:16:45 UTC 2008

Who is "our?" We still haven't defined who the community is.
Some people say just editors. Some people say editors+readers,
and some others say that it's just the editors who seem to put
the most effort in.

However, this "community" cannot be rigidly defined, and for different
purposes, we need different measuring sticks. For the board
elections, there's issues of "who can vote?" On one hand, it would
be _nice_ to allow anyone who edits or reads WMF-projects to vote,
as it would help us be more representative. However, that leads to
issues of potential vote stacking (it's easy enough to use a new IP
address to vote twice, if anons were allowed to vote). So we limit that
"community" to just editors.

For Wikimania, it becomes harder. Who are we trying to encourage to
attend? Is it our "core" editors and contributors? The media? People
who have never edited but are interested? Potential donors? Readers?

Until you figure out who Wikimania is designed for, you'll have trouble
defining who they're representing, and indeed, if they are doing their
job right. It's far too early to say "they didn't do it right" when you
still don't know what "it" is.

-Chad

On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 4:01 PM, Jason Safoutin
<jason.safoutin at wikinewsie.org> wrote:
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>  foundation-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
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> > Additionally, "we" (as in "the community") did not choose who made up the
>  > jury. I don't know who chose it, why they were chosen, but for a group to
>  > act on "our" behalf in such a big way (big in my view) it surely deserves
>  > more accountability. Maybe something for another thread.
>  > --
>  > Alex (Majorly)
>  Good point. Who did choose the jury? If they are supposed to be working
>  in "our" interests, then someone needs to tell them that they are not
>  doing their job(s).
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>  Jason Safoutin (DragonFire1024)
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