> I think it makes sense to get board members selected by the community > and board members selected by chapters because the focus is different. > I'd love to see members selected by the community being active editors, > involved on a regular basis on the project with editorial and soft > development activities. And I also love seeing board members selected by
> the chapters being more involved with the organizational side of things > (finances, legal, partnership and so on). Both sides are necessary. > > Chapters are not so good to identify good representants of the editorial > community. And the community is not so good at selecting board members > with specific expertise and knowledge on the organizational side of > things. Both selections complement each other greatly. > Not that I disagree, but I think this invites us to think what actual role the chapters have. Indeed, my impression (which might be wrong since I have never performed any statistical analysis) is that the majority of the chapter board members (and, for this purpose, the majority of participants of this mailing list) are somewhat disentangled from the editing process - at least often I check their contribution on their home page I find a laughable amount of edits in the article namespace, for instance, a two-digit amount per year. (I know there are exceptions). I remember some time ago it was a discussion of the threshold for voters at the community Board elections with the main idea that it is sometimes difficult to people included in governance to have 50 edits in half a year, even if the edits made after the announcement are accepted. I understand that many chapter boards members are just busy with other things, I know they are often administrators and have a lot of contributions in the Wikipedia namespace for instance, I understand that the task of chapter boards is not writing articles, and I do not want to accuse anybody - but still, is this exactly what we had in mind when chapters were created? Cheers Yaroslav _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
