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.
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. I am not perfect, but I try.
--Jimbo