I have no opinion on whether the UG should vote yes or no, because it's
not clear which vote is more likely to produce changes. A resounding no
either from the community or from affiliates may just lead WMF to cancel
the entire thing. The WMF BoT's current proposals are based on the
premise that there is some support for the charter so they need to do
something else in return for rejecting it.
The main change for the UG would perhaps be that it could become a tier
2 or even tier 3 affiliate:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Movement_Charter/Supplementary_Document/Future_Affiliate_Landscape
Whether that's something to care about, I don't know. (They're proposing
to abolish the distinction between thematic and geographic orgs and even
the incorporation requirement, so in practice all tiers seem blurred.)
Il 02/07/24 23:16, Samuel Klein ha scritto:
Problems that may be irreversible:
e) The current charter is impossible to update. [...]
I don't understand how this is possible. The charter may be unamendable,
but it can't override the bylaws, so it can be abolished by the WMF BoT
with a stroke of a pen at any time, no? Hence:
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Movement_Charter#Half_measures_and_next_steps
Cheers,
Federico
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