Cormac Lawler wrote:
As far as I see it: the community has control over the content, and the board bears the legal liability for the content. Jimbo's unique part in this is that he retains the power to dictate policy where he deems necessary, and when he thinks a project has veered off course significantly from its goals or the goals of the foundation. I'm not sure of what other times he has exercised this power, apart from the recent debate about the content of Wikibooks - maybe someone else, perhaps Jimbo himself, can clarify this.
Excuse me, can you clarify?
How does [[User:Jimbo Wales]] "retain the power to dictate policy"? Retention requires that you already have the power. When did [[User:Jimbo Wales]] obtain the power to dictate policy "where he deems necessary"?
I understand that someone in the Wikimedia Foundation can dictate policy in exceptional cases where that is required, but I do not understand how the Wikimedia Foundation is organised.
-- [[User:Kernigh]] http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/User:Kernigh