On 01/11/06, geni geniice@gmail.com wrote:
On 11/1/06, Sam Korn smoddy@gmail.com wrote:
Jimbo's position with regard to en.wp ArbCom is as Jimbo, not as Chairman of the WMF. I can't see how this would alter that situation in the slightest.
A shift in power. With the change in board positions the last justification for his past role is gone. Arbcom's power comes from the community not from jimbo.
This is, of course, precisely backwards. The ArbCom is an embodiment of Jimbo's power, that's where it comes from. Jimbo has power because that's how we do it, i.e. the community lets him. (Note that the community frequently tells Jimbo to get knotted.)
You know this. Thus the community should as much as posible be the final abitor of arbcoms membership.
I think Jimbo agrees, but doesn't try to rewrite history to argue the point.
- d.