Jimmy Wales wrote:
Delirium wrote:
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.
Exactly. And I consider my leadership of the community to be a more or less entirely separate matter from any legal arrangements of any kind. For example, I would imagine that if the foundation were to fall prey to some extremely unjust lawsuit or political action, I could successfully lead the community to another place under another name.
Moses leading his people out of Egypt! :-)
Leadership of a volunteer community doesn't come from power, it comes from having the cautious wisdom to lead the community where it wants to go.
Even when it doesn't know where it wants to go.
I am not perfect,
That's disappointing.
but I try.
There's still light at the end of that 100 year long tunnel.
Ec