[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

[Fred Bauder]

> Fred, please re-read what I said. The Council would be a body elected by
> the
> Community. How is that arbitrary? Why would their be loss of volunteer
> and
> donor support? And, I specifically said that the Council would have
> nothing
> to do with day-to-day editing or behavioral disputes. Where is the loss
> of
> independence?
>
> Marc

You were talking about something else. However even the council is a bad
idea with anonymous editors electing it. We have no idea what kind of
skulduggery is involved. Secret ballot by anonymous people; what kind of
sense does that make?

Fred