On 3/21/07, stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
On 3/20/07, Stephen Bain stephen.bain@gmail.com wrote:
At English Wikipedia level, he has an informal status as a leader among the community. Historically - as a leader in the community - he exercised various functions (arbitration, for example) until those functions were delegated down (to the ArbCom, for example).
Its important to understand that Jimbo has a well defined discretionary powers over the ArbCom. He has never used them though, just as the Queen of England has never "disbanded Parliament".
And indeed, a constitutional monarchy is the best analogy for the English Wikipedia at the moment.