On 11/28/05, Delirium <delirium(a)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