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

[Anthony DiPierro]

On 11/28/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
> Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> >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).
> >
> >
> 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

And the community would be completely useless without the servers. 
Somewhere between the two a consensus needs to be reached.  The
community can't overthrow the arb com without the support of the
board, and the board can't institute the arb com without the support
of the community.

Anthony