I agree. This could be one of the role of it. As a project grow, it becomes more and more difficult to find a key person to get messages through (both ways) (depending on languages. Obviously, it is not a problem in english).
Ant
Titoxd@Wikimedia wrote:
This could probably be an advisory committee to the Board, someone through which the Board could run ideas and ask questions that would affect Wikimedia as a whole. Also, it would be similar to UninvitedCompany's idea of "Wikipedia ambassadors", or users who are responsible for spreading Wikimedia-wide messages to their local wikis.
Titoxd.
-----Original Message----- From: foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org [mailto:foundation-l-bounces@wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of David Gerard Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2006 2:39 PM To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] wikicouncil
On 19/11/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
David Gerard wrote:
On 19/11/06, Erik Zachte erikzachte@infodisiac.com wrote:
This is about the Wikicouncil, as discussed on http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicouncil
Sounds like a useful tool to deal with people who need to be kept busy and well away from anything important.
Do I detect yet another note of pessimism?
No, I'm just not entirely sure what it's for, or what scaling problems it helps solve ... it seems like something to make people feel more involved, which is good; but its useful function isn't elegantly obvious.
- d.
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