Hello,
I have been thinking about the wikicouncil stuff lately and it seems to me there is room for another form of community representation, something like a union of editors.
WMF<->Project communication is necessary and I think it would be suited to a wikicouncil. But then there is the more general WMF<->community representation, where "community" is the self-elected group of people who are interested in "meta issues"... ie foundation-l posters at the moment.
I know the Foundation gave up formal membership however-long-ago but I don't think that would preclude them from organising, or perhaps more accurately recognising, a membership group that was legally powerless. (We don't need to be legally powerful to have power: the most powerful thing we have is the right to fork.)
Anyway my thoughts about this are not completely formed, so I just want to throw the idea out there to see what people think.
cheers, Brianna