Talk:Wikimedia Board of Trustees

Archive 1

Other discussion about the board

Wikimedians discussed and continue to discuss the Board and, in typical fashion, the conversation sprawls over many pages. See the election results.

Early conversations

• The ideal Wikipedia board
• Board of Trustees/Archive1
• Recruiting Wikipedia's board
• Talk:Board of Trustees/Election results discussion

Live conversations

• Wikimedia board manual
• Board activities
• Board agenda
• Board of Trustees/To do List
• List of pages that pertain to the Wikimedia Foundation
• Board vote poll

Draft?

When Aphaia reverted my edits ([1]) (the template "Foundation wiki" stated that the page it appeared on was an unofficial copy of a page on the Foundation wiki), I was told that this was a draft. If so, it doesn't look like we're making much progress towards a final. Brianjd | Why restrict HTML? | 09:09, 2005 May 8 (UTC)

The page on the Foundation wiki has a different format to this page. Is this page really a "draft"? Brian Jason Drake 06:57, 17 November 2005 (UTC)

Appeal the Arbitration Committee decision

Please help: where can I appeal against Arbitration Committee (in ru-wiki) decision? --Jaroslavleff 15:45, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

Look of the page

I removed the process browsing scheme implemented here (I left it on other pages). While the idea may be nice, the thing is highly distracting.

If anything, this page suffers from overlinking and too much irrelevant material. I would suggest integrating the useful links in the sidebar to the right (which could also use a trim up), rather than on top where it is not at all pleasing. Comments? en:Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 17:07, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Note that I put the link Information and statistics to the bottom from the top. en:Oleg Alexandrov (talk) 17:22, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

Issue with voting process

Sorry if this is OT, but I really really tried to find a better (unprotected) place to post this. I went to vote in the board elections and was disappointed that I did not have enough edits :( . What I did notice is that the error message it is giving me is incorrect. The first part about not enough edits is correct, but saying that also I didn't register early enough is wrong. March is before May last time I checked. Once again, sorry for putting this on the wrong site, in the wrong location, etc. but I couldn't find a better spot. Good luck to all of the candidates. [GuyFromChicago] GuyFromChicago 21:39, 1 September 2006 (UTC)

Sorry, you are not qualified to vote in this election here on the English Wikipedia. You need to have made 400 edits here before 00:00, 1 August 2006; you have made 22. Also, your first edit on this wiki was at 02:15, 26 March 2006; it needs to be before 00:00, 3 May 2006.

You may be eligible to vote on another Wikimedia project where you are active. If so, please visit that project and try again. Thank you!

Just wondering - every member of board of trustees got paid? I mean they get salary? If yes - is it open data? 70.30.188.177 20:38, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

Bias beyond hope

What does the board intend to do about the rampant, Gestapo like left wing liberal communist agenda that runs rampant at this site?

Every minor change to article after I've made, under many different IPs, has been reverted and /or deleted by admins with an staunch hyper leftwing agenda.

This site is absolutely pathetic, and your pride and your desire never to admit your bias is the death of this site. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 12.145.177.110 (talk • contribs) 2006-10-30t22:09:29z.

If the edits were on the English Wikipedia see en:WP:V, en:WP:NPOV, and en:WP:DR; else find that project's Contact page. -- Jeandré, 2006-12-09t07:52z

Closure of Moldovan Wikipedia

Don't forget to close "Moldovan Wikipedia". It was voted on "Moldovan Wikipedia" and also here. Nicolae 20:52, 3 December 2006 (UTC)

is the date correct

It seems like Sep 2007 should be changed to Sep 2006. Bawolff 06:00, 27 June 2007 (UTC)

it should be upgraded to the current board 151.77.255.41 21:25, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

contacting the Board?

I could not find any information about how one is supposed to contact the Wikimedia Board of Trustees. Do they have a common e-mail address? Or should they be contacted individually? Regards, Nsk92 14:50, 5 March 2008 (UTC)

Mirror update?

This seems to be getting stale. Can we get a mirror update on it (it is currently protected). In particular, I would imagine that Veronique Kessler (CFOO which means CFO + COO) is now functioning as the treasurer.--76.221.184.192 01:14, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

(She's not functioning as treasure right now, the board is looking for one.) Cbrown1023 talk 02:33, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

and the fact being that Veronique Kessler is a staff, not a Board Member so the current list of staff can be found on >> Current staff (people who are paid by the foundation) whereas the Board of Trustees work Free-of-charge ..--Cometstyles 05:56, 5 April 2008 (UTC)

New Language proposal policy

many members of community strong disagree with current language proposal policy. it is the reason why we have been making a draft for a new policy.

The draft can check for you, members of Board of trustees here.

Crazymadlover

• In relation to what is above, I call upon the Board of trustees to take a look at Requests for new languages/Wiktionary Masry.--Mohammed Ahmed 23:58, 10 October 2008 (UTC)

Wikipedia Bahasa Aceh approval

Please take a look at Wikipedia Bahasa Aceh and need your approval on this --Andri.h 22:47, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Board #3: Sep 2005 – Nov 2006?

Surely this should be Board #3: Sep 2006 – Nov 2006 81.136.204.166 11:52, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

A comment on term dates

We have always been lax about when Trustee terms of appointment start and end. This is interesting, considering the precision with which this is debated and observed in other governance bodies.

Observations as best as I can make them: There are some ambiguities in the transitions on the board timeline, but none of significance. In practice, a Board member elected for a year should attend the 4 main annual meetings; and is sometimes present at the following meeting for continuity, to finalize any votes that extended until that meeting. As of late 2009, appointed expertise seats begin at the start of the calendar year and run until the end of the year; elected and selected trustees are elected for roughly two years but serve until the Board meeting that formally approves a replacement.

-- sj · translate · + 22:38, 25 September 2009 (UTC)

Run-on

Matt Halprin was appointed to the board, his term will expire in December. 113.253.206.192 03:33, 6 March 2010 (UTC)

Cumulative voting

I recommend electing the board by cumulative voting, as this will make it easier for minority factions to obtain representation. This is standard procedure in the corporate world and is not hard to implement. Tisane 05:35, 11 March 2010 (UTC)

Latgalian Wikipedia

Please look at Wikipedia Latgalian (request), we need the approval. Thanks! =) --Dark Eagle 18:13, 10 January 2011 (UTC)

Need Action...

Probably the wrong place for this, but: Can the Wikimedia Board please oversee the huge change being proposed for Wikipedia's Criticisms? (MINORLY important.) Here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Criticism Thanks! (I'm "Dario D." over there. No account here.)--68.111.175.123 10:37, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

How does the board do its work? (explaining might help people vote)

I have edited since probably 2006 or before, and my involvement in Wikimedia is medium. Though for several years I could have voted, I may never have, because, though there is enough information on the many candidates, I wish the the board article was larger.

Do members work full-time, part-time, only when they want for a few hours a week? Do the they work at home or a Wikimedia location? How do people running elections know candidates seems able to fulfill duties, and what happens if you need a new member between elections? (I suppose all candidates are admins.)

Maybe I did not vote also because I did not feel I had expertise or time to consider candidates, but for years I have learned more about how Wikimedia works & tools, rules; hopefully I will vote later.--Dchmelik 12:37, 28 December 2011 (UTC)

Hi, I can try to answer some of your questions. The board of trustees are composed of elected and appointed members. There are community elections for the elected members, every other year(once for chapters than once for the editing community). The appointed members are selected for their expertise and experience, and they are appointed rather than elected. The term for elected members is for usually 2 years, but it might be increased or they might be re-confirmed. If a board member chooses to resign, which might have already happened once, depending on the whether the resigning member is elected or appointed, a decision is made by the rest of the board to appoint someone else in their position or appoint an interim trustee till the elections. They are strictly unpaid, there are non-profit laws and Wikimedia's own rules, that require board members of non-profit to be unpaid and neutral, and disclose any conflict of interests in issues beforehand. They have a certain number of physical meetings through-out the year, mostly coinciding with other events and conferences, there are also certain meetings with staff and office-visits that the board members can do at their discretion. They keep in touch with each other through mailing lists, emails, IRC meetings -official and unofficial and interact with the community through the previously mentioned forms. Theo10011 13:28, 28 December 2011 (UTC)