Movement Charter/Community Consultations/2023/Medan Wikimedian Community by Arcuscloud

General Information

Feedback channels: Live meeting & WhatsApp
Number of participants: 8

Feedback

Global Council

Open Questions regarding Fund Dissemination

What role should the Global Council have in fund dissemination?
Oversight or review of WMF decisions

Coordination with WMF

Other (please elaborate)

Should there be a committee that reports to the Global Council and handles central/cross-regional fund dissemination?

What should be the Global Council’s role with regards to the allocation of the funds within the WMF?
The Global Council should be consulted on the allocation of the funds within the WMF.

The Global Council should have no role in the allocation of the funds within the WMF and only be informed.

Other (please elaborate)

Open Questions regarding Structure

Should the Global Council exist only as an executive body or should it exist as an executive body with an advisory board? (See scenarios below)
If the Global Council is an executive body with an advisory board, how are the members of both entities (executive body and advisory board) seated?

With its size, the Global Council must have adequate diversity and clout, but not be so large as to undermine effectiveness. As an executive body, how many members should the Global Council have?
Option 1: 9-13 members

Option 2: 17-21 members

Open Questions regarding Membership

With an intention to ensure fair representation, power balance, and promote diversity and inclusivity within the Global Council, we seek your inputs on the following:

Should there be some imposed limits to the membership in terms of movement representation?

Please share your opinions about potential criteria of such limits:

Should there be a regional cap, e.g. max 3 persons from a single region? If yes, please specify the condition.

Should there be a home project or entity cap, e.g. max 2 persons from a single wiki project or affiliate? If yes, please specify the condition.

Should there be a specific cap for large^[1] language communities, projects, or affiliates, e.g. not more than 5 seats from between the 5 largest projects? If yes, please specify the condition.

Should there be any other limits for Global Council membership? If yes, please specify the condition.

Other feedback about the draft chapter:

...
...
...

Hubs

Community Question: Should there be a limit to how many hubs an affiliate can join? (Please elaborate on your answer.)

Other feedback about the draft chapter:

There needs to be clearance of responsibilities regarding the opening of the project between the language committee and the Global Council.
There is a need to guarantee for thematic affiliates the rights to establish a thematic hub if there is a conflict of interest between a regional hub that has already been established considering that thematic affiliates is part of certain region.
Creating standarts of overseeing for process of fundraising (Hubs applying grant) strongly recommended to avoid hidden agenda.

Roles & Responsibilities

...
...
...

Glossary

...
...
...

Miscellaneous feedback

...
...
...

↑ As determined by number of active editors for projects and voting members for affiliates

[1] As determined by number of active editors for projects and voting members for affiliates

[1]