On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Risker risker.wp@gmail.com wrote:
I have no idea what the board members are saying on the internal-L mailing list; however, if they're expressing concerns about behaviour there, they might want to actually mention it onwiki on the projects where there are concerns. Themselves. Wearing their Board hat, rather than their "I'm just an editor" hat. They're actually selected to be leaders of the WMF, and it would make it a darn sight easier to change community practices if the Trustees would be much more public in their pronouncements and sharing their experiences and observations. Internal-L is the last place where that will be helpful, with its extremely restrictive distribution and chapter-heavy membership.
Risker/Anne _______________________________________________
Risker has pinned the issue; what the English Wikipedia suffers from is a lack of leadership. The global, decentralised, community self-managed nature of Wikipedia has allowed for many great things... but it has its drawbacks, among them the complete inability to enforce social norms.