[WikiEN-l] Community Ombuds Department

[private musings]

folk might be interested in;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:OMBUDSMEN
an idea driven by User:Bstone in a similar vein,
and it's probably also somewhat relevant that the foundation are proposing
to vote on the creation of a 'volunteer council' which may or may not have
similar intentions - it's a big hard to tell!
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2008-March/039756.html

cheers,

PM.


On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Wily D <wilydoppelganger at gmail.com> wrote:

> The ArbCom claims to derive it's authority from Jimbo's authority, so
> such a "route of appeal" remains necessary until ArbCom gets some new
> mandate.   Presumably, we could (as a community) seperately empower
> ArbCom (or a similar body), but it's unclear how we can remove Jimbo's
> vestigial authority apart from asking nicely.
>
> WilyD
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 2:49 PM,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> >
> >  In a message dated 3/13/2008 8:18:02 A.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> >
> > thomas.dalton at gmail.com writes:
> >
> >  (I think  it's still on the books that you can
> >  appeal to Jimbo, but that's only  intended for exceptional
> >  circumstances>>
> >
> >
> >  --------------------------
> >
> >  Can someone find this, so it can be removed?
> >  Thanks
> >  Will Johnson
> >
> >
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