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

[Anthere]

Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> 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

For the record, there is also a french arbcom, and its organisation has 
been entirely set up by the french community. All members have been 100% 
elected by the editorship.

ant