daniwo59@aol.com wrote:
Actually, as Wikipedia grows it requires help in oversight no less than it does in operations. A large organization entails legal and financial responsibilities. If we are sued, for whatever reason, we cannot simply throw another server at the person suing us.
The problem is that nobody outside the community has the moral authority to provide such oversight. Technical oversight and advice, sure---few people have issues with contracting outside lawyers where necessary to provide legal advice, and I doubt there would be too many objections to obtaining assistance with accounting, grantwriting, or anything else of that sort. Strategic direction and decision-making though, of the sort that the board has the authority to make, cannot be put in the hands of non-Wikimedians.
-Mark