On 3 February 2012 14:13, Yaroslav M. Blanter <pute...@mccme.ru> wrote: > 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?
I think it is inevitable that people involved in other aspects of the movement won't be as involved in editing. I don't see a problem with that. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l