[Foundation-l] Elections in the pontic wikipedia

Dan Rosenthal swatjester at gmail.com
Tue Jan 27 19:22:58 UTC 2009


This indeed. Good for them for dealing with these issues in advance  
rather than waiting until the need for a crat is critical.
-Dan

On Jan 27, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Muhammad Alsebaey wrote:

> +1 on them having their own crat and admins since they were  
> approved, what
> possible harm could that have? they can always self-correct as the  
> community
> gets bigger is the choices are not optimum.
>
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Philippe|Wiki <philippe.wiki at gmail.com 
> >wrote:
>
>> While we can always learn from best practices, I firmly believe it's
>> best to leave local governance to local communities.
>>
>> If they want to have admins and crats, and have set up an election
>> system with appropriate controls and a system of checks and balances,
>> good for them.
>>
>>
>> __________________
>> Philippe|Wiki
>> philippe.wiki at gmail.com
>>
>> [[en:User:Philippe]]
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 27, 2009, at 9:38 AM, Huib Laurens wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> why should a wiki have a bureaucrat before it is created?
>>>
>>> A lot of small wikis doesn't have a crat and stewards will do the  
>>> job.
>>>
>>> The same for admins, why not keep the test admins. I don't see why  
>>> it
>>> is important to have admins before a wiki is created or has a
>>> comnunety.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>>
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