Similar comment to the other bureaucracy-increasing proposal on Foundation-l - Wikipedia/Wikimedia has a specific mission, which doesn't include experimental governance. To the extent that community management is necessary to preserve and promote the mission, we have it. The institutions we have are open to modification by consensus, but creating whole new classes of institutions as an end run is not a solution for those who perceive a problem. So my question is this: In what way to Advisory Councils, Ombudsmen Commissions, Volunteer Councils, etc. actually aid the encyclopedia or any other aspect of the Wikimedia mission? By directing the obsessively bureaucratic into a special circle of hell, so that the rest of us can be left alone? (That never works, Hell tries to set the rules).
Nathan