2009/8/24 Chad innocentkiller@gmail.com:
The only user requirement for this is that a shell user has to perform the actual decision. The community makes the decisions about opening/closing new projects, and the sysadmins carry out the actual task.
But what is "the community" (the community of the project being closed? the meta community? the Wikimedia community as a whole? the Wikimedia community minus the community of the project being closed? etc.) and what is required for something to be considered a "decision" (majority? supermajority? consensus? unanimity?)?