Thank you Phoebe for changing the subject... > On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:12 PM, Risker <risker...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Two board members (20% of the board) are elected by a tiny number of >> representatives of chapters (the chapter representative election process is >> very opaque). I can't find any numbers that confirm exactly how many people >> belong to chapters, and whether or not all of their members would otherwise >> meet the definition of "community member", but it is widely acknowledged >> that only a small percentage of Wikimedians (i.e., those who would meet the >> definition of "community member") are members of chapters.
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_chapters#Existing_chapters : chapters have 2137+ members. http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2009/Results/en : 2940 valid ballots. Anyway, this is the wrong question: the right question is, if chapters are able to select good WMF board members, with the disclaimer that as Phoebe said we are only at the second round. Risker, 21/10/2010 07:29: > I've looked around both the WMF wiki and Meta, and can't actually find any > documentation of the process by which the chapters elected their two > representatives. Does anyone have a link to where I might be able to read > it? http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Chapter-selected_Board_seats/Process This is linked by the navigational templated and was linked several times on foundation-l... Nemo -- Federico Leva [[Meta:User:Nemo_bis]] (See for contact methods. This account is for lists only.) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
