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613:(CPB), established in 2011 to evaluate and recommend applications on how to use €200,000 of German chapter funds to the WMDE board of trustees. The CPB ran into trouble over CoI allegations against its own members and WMDE trustees who applied for CPB funds while in charge of its oversight and final approval. The unfolding debate triggered several resignations from both bodies. The chapter's general assembly responded by amending the CPB’s framework to exclude all sitting CPB and WMDE board members from applying for CPB funds. 781: 117: 107: 166: 33: 127: 87: 137: 97: 586:
like who should be able or required to apply for FDC funds and how multilingual application processes will look. The FDC will be tasked with evaluating applications for funding, mainly by chapters, and on this basis will make recommendations to the WMF board of trustees on how funds should ultimately
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An "in-depth" point for discussion was whether staff and board members of organizations applying for FDC funding can serve on the FDC at the same time. While chapter functionaries had lobbied for chapter-selected FDC members, thereby being able to choose some of the people to be in charge of
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Topics like the concrete role of a community-elected ombudsperson to handle dispute resolution over the FDC’s work and details of the application papers will be discussed up until the final recommendations deadline to the WMF board on June 30.
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The Project page headline "Foundation finance reformers wrestle with CoI" illustrates a recurring issue of considering how text looks in both serif and sans-serif typefaces. To a Wikipedian who knows Knowledge's common abbreviation for
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Does Knowledge have a guideline about avoiding potential ambiguity in both typeface styles? If not, perhaps we should considered adopting one. In the meanwhile, please consider changing the abbreviation in the headline to all
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It's high time somebody wrote the article on that proposed Italian SOPA like bill. I take it from the fact that it not linked here or in the previous report, that we are still missing the article on it. And what is it name?
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fixed membership numbers altogether, it may still be decided that FDC members, who will number up to nine, might be replaced by alternate members if inactive for periods long enough to affect the workability of the body.
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evaluating their own chapter applications, in the run-up to the meeting the working group stuck to the existing arrangement: five community-elected and four WMF-board-appointed voting members. On the wider
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notes that a broad "recusal" requirement failed in the only comparable Wikimedia committee that has come under wider community scrutiny: the first German
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Another point at issue in San Francisco was the management of FDC volunteers who become inactive. While the English Knowledge’s
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for additional checkusers and oversighters, the user groups that deal with cases related to privacy policy. According to the
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The clause would come into effect if either the community elects or the WMF board appoints such members. However, the
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proposal to establish a Wikimedia-hosted travel guide wiki. This idea has been under review on Meta since April (
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Chapters Council proposals take form as research applications invited for Knowledge Academy and HighBeam accounts
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Chapters Council proposals take form as research applications invited for Knowledge Academy and HighBeam accounts
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Chapter-selected Board seats, an invite to the Teahouse, patrol becomes triage, and this week in history
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Chapter-selected Board seats, an invite to the Teahouse, patrol becomes triage, and this week in history
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Berlin reforms to movement structures, Wikidata launches with fanfare, and Knowledge's day of mischief
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Berlin reforms to movement structures, Wikidata launches with fanfare, and Knowledge's day of mischief
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issues such as indigenous languages projects and educational outreach to Latin American universities.
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Wikimania a success; board letter controversial; and evidence showing bitten newbies don't stay
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Wikimania a success; board letter controversial; and evidence showing bitten newbies don't stay
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Projects launched in Brazil and the Middle East as advisors sought for funds committee
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Projects launched in Brazil and the Middle East as advisors sought for funds committee
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Sue Gardner tackles the funds, and the terms of use update nears implementation
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Sue Gardner tackles the funds, and the terms of use update nears implementation
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Finance debate drags on as editor survey finds Knowledge too bureaucratic
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Finance debate drags on as editor survey finds Knowledge too bureaucratic
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Funds, fiduciaries, and the Foundation: the complex dynamics of scaling
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Funds, fiduciaries, and the Foundation: the complex dynamics of scaling
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Finance meeting fallout, Gardner recommendations forthcoming
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Finance meeting fallout, Gardner recommendations forthcoming
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entities and the WMF met in Santiago, Chile June 1–3 to
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Ground shifts while chapters dither over new Association
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Ground shifts while chapters dither over new Association
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Fundraising proposals spark a furore among the chapters
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Fundraising proposals spark a furore among the chapters
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Fundraiser row continues, new director of engineering
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Fundraiser row continues, new director of engineering
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Jan eissfeldt
Ground shifts while chapters dither over new Association
Foundation finance reformers wrestle with CoI
Finance debate drags on as editor survey finds Knowledge too bureaucratic
Projects launched in Brazil and the Middle East as advisors sought for funds committee
Funds, fiduciaries, and the Foundation: the complex dynamics of scaling
Berlin reforms to movement structures, Wikidata launches with fanfare, and Knowledge's day of mischief
An introduction to movement roles
Chapters Council proposals take form as research applications invited for Knowledge Academy and HighBeam accounts
Sue Gardner tackles the funds, and the terms of use update nears implementation
Chapter-selected Board seats, an invite to the Teahouse, patrol becomes triage, and this week in history
Finance meeting fallout, Gardner recommendations forthcoming
Fundraiser row continues, new director of engineering
Fundraising proposals spark a furore among the chapters
Wikimania a success; board letter controversial; and evidence showing bitten newbies don't stay
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Ground shifts while chapters dither over new Association

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