Section 1. POWERS. The powers of the corporation shall be exercised, its
properties controlled, and its affairs conducted by a Board of Trustees
to be comprised initially of five trustees. All trustees must be active
(contributing or volunteer) or life members of the Foundation.
What is the difference between a corporation and a foundation ?
When the next elections take place, will there be 2 trustees to elect,
or 4 ?
Do members have any other role than electing trustees to decide of
everything for them ?
I would like to apologize for being unnecessarily rude in defending my
invention. I hope it's understandable that after spending several hours
working on something, you become a bit defensive about it. Especially as I
developed this not for me, but to help newbies.
I still would like to suggest that we wait for some general feedback
regarding the "Click + get example text" feature before deciding to show
no toolbar at all for some browsers, i.e. that we run it for a trial
period of a couple of weeks. Maybe that will also lead to some ideas on
how to improve it without turning it off. The following should work in all
browsers, in case you have any ideas:
- change a textfield - overwrite it, append to it etc.
- change the status bar (at the bottom of the window)
- show a messagebox
- show a popup window
I have also contacted several Mozilla developers to search for a
workaround of the scrolling bug which I've reported.
Regards,
Erik
Section 2. USER ACCOUNTS OF MEMBERS. All applicants for contributing or
volunteer active membership shall maintain a user account on one or
several Wikimedia projects (i.e. Wikipedia of any language, Wikibooks,
etc.), complete and sign the form of application provided by the
Foundation on it’s web site and submit the application the Secretary
along with payment of the year’s membership dues, if applicable, through
such web site or by mail. Such application shall include an agreement by
the applicant to abide by the Foundation's Code of Ethics, submission
standards and other policies as are time to time adopted or modified by
the Board of Trustees.
Here are the following cases as regards participants
* participant using his real name as a user name (example Tim Starling)
* participant using a pseudonyme as a user name, but whose real name is
displayed on his user page or is generally known per mailing list
(example Cimon)
* participant using a pseudonyme as a user name, but whose real name is
known only from a limited number of participants (I will avoid putting
an example here)
* participant using a pseudonyme as a user name, and whose real name is
totally unknown of
* participant per ip
Which ones may be members ?
Brion Vibber a écrit:
> On Jan 24, 2004, at 11:00, Ray Saintonge wrote:
>
>> There is also nothing in the by-laws to define "Board of Directors".
>> The simple fact that the term was used suggests that it is at least
>> something different from the Board of Trustees.
>
>
> Florida statutes section 617.01401, paragraph 2: '"Board of directors"
> means the group of persons vested with the management of the affairs of
> the corporation irrespective of the name by which such group is
> designated, including, but not limited to, managers or trustees.'
So, it seems to be two terms for one group only. Oki
> (Out of curiosity, why aren't we using the wikilegal-l list? It's there
> for a reason; in no small part for future reference via the archives.)
>
> -- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
You are right :-)
Is there a gname adress for wikilegal-l ?
We are currently trying to translate the bylaws (thanks Jeff !)
A paragraph raised my attention
A. CONTRIBUTING ACTIVE MEMBERSHIP: Active membership in this Foundation
shall be limited to volunteers who have contributed to any Wikimedia
project prior to the election ballot request deadline after their
application for membership and payment of annual dues. All active
members shall have the right to vote in this Foundation at any
membership vote for the Contributing Active Member Representative to the
Board of Trustees.
Why shall only those contributing before the election be considered
members ? What about all those who will join next month ? Did I
misunderstand something here ?
en.wikipedia.org is now running on a much faster machine. Between that
and the database tweaks we've done in the last couple days, I hope this
should keep things more or less smooth for the next few weeks until the
new server farm is set up in Florida (thanks to all those who
donated!).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
There has been a lot of talk on WikiEN-l about the need for citations in
articles. I tend to agree with that. But our current system of wiki refs only
encourage the creation of footnote-like references to external websites
(which is less than ideal).
I have put together a proposal that, if enacted, would create a more
wordprocessor-like footnote system that could be used for all types of
footnotes (web, ISBN, journal articles, and written out dead tree citations).
See and respond on:
http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footnotes
-- Daniel Mayer (aka mav)
