Anthere wrote:
Delirium wrote:
I disagree with this---meeting with a tiny
fraction of the Wikimedia
community and making decisions at such meetings is detrimental to the
project. Real work and decision-making should be done online, in
public, where everyone can participate. If people want to socialize
in person, that's fine, but we shouldn't be making decisions at
meetings either behind closed doors or at which only a small fraction
of Wikimedians are present.
I think you may have not understood what a board exactly is.
I know what a board is, but I disagree that we should have one running
significant parts of Wikimedia projects. Hierarchical top-down control
is the exact opposite of the wiki way of doing things.
We do of course need a board for legal reasons, and the board may need
to make some decisions. But it should not be running the project, and
when it does make decisions, it should do so as openly and publicly as
possible, in consultation with the normal consensus-based method of
decision-making we use.
-Mark