Based on a prompt from Itzik, I checked the archives of wikimania-l (which I was not subscribed to). There is a message from Stuart Prior there with a very brief summary of background of jury members which I was unaware of and it may have been intended as a response to my question. Refer to <https://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikimania-l/2014-October/006418.html>.
For those that do subscribe to wikimania-l, please keep in mind that most readers of wikimedia-l do not see your responses unless you post here, and that posts from non-subscribers to wikimania-l get bounced. Thanks, Fae On 10 October 2014 11:48, Fæ <[email protected]> wrote: > The conclusion in response to Itzik's original question "how the > current jury was elected and by who", is that the Wikimania jury is > not elected, it was selected by a WMF employee against unpublished and > presumably undefined criteria. Sadly, there are no plans or commitment > by the WMF to change or improve this process to make it transparent or > volunteer-centric. > > We also know that at least 5 out of 7 members of the jury have been > employees. It may be more, but there has been no reply to this > question. > > It is disturbing that asking questions of governance is being parodied > as referring to jury members as "second class citizens". Nobody apart > from a member of the jury has made such a ridiculous statement. > > Being an employee is not something that should be hidden or kept > secret. The community should be free to ask questions about the > balance of volunteers in an important jury with responsibility for how > several hundred thousand dollars of donated funds gets spent in order > to ensure a healthy balance of viewpoints. Having basic governance > questions marginalized and parodied by the jury is a disappointing > demonstration of how transparency and accountability will be handled > for future Wikimania events. > > It is obvious that improvement is needed. It would be great to see > commitment to change, rather than just defence of the status quo. > > Fae _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
