On 03/05/07, Erik Moeller erik@wikimedia.org wrote:
As Florence has already pointed out elsewhere, the Board seeks to define outcomes; resolutions like this should be put into more elaborate policies and processes on the operational level. We did not make that distinction for the licensing policy, where we laid out very explicitly what is and isn't permissible. That should be the exception, not the rule. In this case, Cary, Sandy and others who work with volunteers will be in charge of setting the practical limits for data access, i.e. interpreting the resolution. From that perspective, a lack of clarity is actually a good thing - as long as the resolution is not confused with the policy itself, which should become a separate document on Meta.
Fair enough. However, that leaves some fast developer relations work to be done on wikitech-l ...
- d.