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VOTE Now - Wikimedia Movement Charter ratification
Barbara Klen and Philip Kopetzky present an analysis of the Movement Charter based on editor comments from the Wikimedia CEE Hub
Should the 10 June 2024 version of the Movement Charter be the governing document of the Wikimedia Movement?
VOTE NOW ---> meta:Movement Charter/Ratification/Voting
The voting period is June 25, 2024 at 00:01 UTC to July 9, 2024 at 23:59 UTC. As reported in the previous issue of The Signpost, the Movement Charter would guide many governance decisions in the Wikimedia Movement by establishing a Global Council of Wikimedia community volunteer representatives.
- user:Jmabel meta:Cascadia Wikimedians/Joe Mabel's comments on the proposed Global Charter
- Scores - anyone can add their score to a new page in this sheet. Groups and individuals welcome - https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Dg6T7bH47mLIeS320YxU20RzBUmAkfHKK0otcVtYa9Y/edit?gid=1020542680#gid=1020542680
- Represented so far: Germany and Central/Eastern Europe
- I think that Wikimedians of Central and Eastern Europe may comment through @Philip Kopetzky: meta:Talk:Movement_Charter#Movement_charter_analysis_from_CEE
- Wikipedia:Village_pump_(policy)#Wikimedia_Movement_Charter_ratification_vote!_How_should_we_spend_a_billion_dollars?
comments from DarwIn and others, , English
- The Charter refers some "community leadership" as the accountable body for each Wikimedia project, without defining what it means (the whole community, some specific members?);
- Charter rules over all Wikimedia project policies, but not over those of the Wikimedia affiliates and the WMF;
- Charter leaves WMF out of the Global Council (community + affiliates), as an independent body at the same power level;
- While the whole community, including affiliate people, get to elect 12 seats out of 25 in the Global Council, affiliates themselves get an additional 8 seats for themselves, which I consider a severe and totally unjustified unbalance of power towards affiliates - which not uncommonly do not represent anything but themselves and have their own agenda, and commonly have at least some degree of these problems;
- In general, this Charter seems to treat onwiki communities as the underdog of the Wikimedia Movement, when in fact they are the core of the whole thing, where all starts and where almost all Wikimedia funding comes from.
- WMF says not to ratify the Movement Charter
- theklan - "If it doesn't matter what you state, it doesn't matter who we elect. There can't be any difference, as everyone should defend the same thing. Elections are futile."
- Doc James - "when I was on the board I viewed the best interests of the foundation and community as inseparable as neither can succeed without the other"
- Chris Keating "Well, I have never seen an organisation undermine its own strategy so
spectacularly, or waste so many millions of dollars, or years-worth of volunteer time."
Vote: WMF Board Elections
meta:Wikimedia_Foundation_elections/2024
Twelve candidates are listed for four (soon to be) open positions.
The voting period will be September 3 to September 17 (UTC).
Brief notes
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Three new admins join the ranks, but numbers are still falling.
Comment these items out if something happens.
- New administrators: The Signpost welcomes the English Wikipedia's newest administrators, Elli, HouseBlaster, and Pickersgill-Cunliffe, all promoted in June.
- Elli has been active since 2020 and edited widely in various areas. Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Elli was closed June 7 with 207 supports, 6 opposes, and 3 neutrals, ending a three-month new-admin drought and becoming the first RfA to succeed under the trial discussion-only period. Opposition concerns about her anodyne, infrequent activity on Wikipediocracy failed to gain meaningful traction. – Sdkb
- Pickersgill-Cunliffe started editing in 2021, with a handful of edits prior to that, and has been active at WikiProject Military history. Wikipedia:Requests for adminship/Pickersgill-Cunliffe was closed June 15 with 201 yea !votes, zero nay and zero neutral, putting it in the top 10 unopposed RfAs.
- Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/HouseBlaster RfA closed 153:27:8 on 23 June.
- Meanwhile, the number of active administrators hasn't been above 440 since May 18, and hit new record lows: 433 on June 13, and 432 on June 22. – B
- Milestones: The following Wikimedia projects have reached milestones: TKTK
- Articles for Improvement: This week's Article for Improvement is Breaking wave. Please be bold in helping improve this article!
- Community User Group Senegal: Community User Group Sénégal was recognized as an affiliate on June 3 (wikimedia-l)
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