I cannot give founder status to anyone, I don't have the privs to do that, but I can give channel ops privileges and otherwise act on behalf of the board of directors. On the other hand, I can almost certainly get whichever victi... volunteer you have handy the founder flag, and then I can get it removed from my account.

If you want to compare it to Mediawiki, I have 'crat status in the channel, and can make admins (chanops) but I cannot make other 'crats.

Amgine

On Sun, 3 Apr 2011 13:50:04 -0400 Alan Walker awalker@wikimedia.ca wrote:

Well that's good to learn Wayne. Are you willing to pass management of the channel over to the board of directors?

On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 1:43 PM, Amgine amgine@wikimedians.ca wrote:

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All freenode network channels which include 'wikimedia' in their name are nominally under the Wikimedia Foundation's group contacts. In practice they are 'owned' by volunteers who are given the founder flag. (The group contacts only get involved when a founder disappears and the channel becomes dysfunctional.)

I was involuntarily given the founder flag for #Wikimedia-ca when I mentioned there was no founder for the channel. (Lesson: in an all-volunteer group, don't point out problems lest them become *your* problem.) As a member of Wiki Canada, I guess that means control of the channel has already been given to Wiki Canada.

Amgine