Re: [Foundation-l] Community of the Wikimedian Projects

Yes, my proposals tended to be convoluted. (Read Up the Organization by Robert Townsend, it brought me to the light) I will be helping with this one in the hopes that the bureaucracy can be stripped out.   ----- Original Message ---- From: Nathan <nawrich(a)gmail.com> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Saturday, April 26, 2008 7:47:22 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Community of the Wikimedian Projects Hopelessly so. Wikimedia Foundation is a company with a specific purpose, not an opportunity for governance experiments. Complicated political structures have no real place, and most attempts to create them (including a few of yours, Geoffrey) fail just out of the gate. Simple systems work and we have problems enough with inertia without recreating the United Nations (itself a model of bureaucratic ineffectiveness). Nathan On 4/26/08, Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd(a)yahoo.com> wrote: _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ