Anthony DiPierro wrote:
On 11/28/05, Delirium delirium@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