[WikiEN-l] Arbitration Committee elections, 2005 - still no information!

[Delirium]

Anthony DiPierro wrote:

>On 11/28/05, Mark Wagner <carnildo at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>On 11/28/05, geni <geniice at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>Other than the need for a friendly developer is there a reason why we
>>>could not in theory ignore jimbo and elect arbcom whatever?
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>>The ArbCom's power comes entirely from the willingness of the admins
>>and the community in general to implement the decisions it comes up
>>with.  If we're willing to forgo the use of the formal voting
>>software, there's nothing stopping the community from running its own
>>ArbCom election.
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>>[[User:Carnildo]]
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>Umm, the ArbCom's power comes from Jimbo as President of the Wikimedia
>Foundation.  The "community" can run its own election if it wants, but
>Jimbo and the board choose how to spend the funds of the foundation
>and how to administer the property of the foundation (such as the
>servers).
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Only in a legalistic sense.  The Wikimedia Foundation's server ownership 
would be completely useless without a community willing to volunteer to 
write an encyclopedia that can be hosted on them.

-Mark