On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Mark Ryan <ultrablue(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I have to agree with you, Anthere. It's starting
to look like over
time the role of the board has evolved from broad guidance and
administration to some sort of twisted version of enwp's Arbitration
Committee. When the board was first created, it wasn't particularly
political and its members were simply those who were most well-known
and respected from across the Wikimedia communities. Now, at least
some of the board members appear to be of the opinion that they have
become the ultimate arbiters of what should be included in Wikimedia
projects. They are not, and this will eventually become patently clear
to them when their seats are due for re-election.
Just throwing in a link to a page Anthere wrote summarizing the "role
of a board member", which might be useful here:
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_member>
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Casey Brown
Cbrown1023