On 01/11/06, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 11/1/06, Sam Korn <smoddy(a)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.