On Saturday, March 12, 2005 5:04 PM, Anthere <anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
I read again the description by James. And realise I
got confused by the
"warrant" term. So, there was nothing wrong in what is written. I apology
for not having understood well.
Sorry, my fault, I shouldn't use such flowery language :-)
This said, I stand up to my opinion that mentions of
stewards or
arbitrators of the english AC has basically nothing to do here. These
positions do not exist in the real world. They mean nothing to those
outside wikipedia. They are unrelated to the Foundation itself. And
they are only part of the status existing on the projects.
Well, there are apparently plans to form Arbitration Committees on other
language versions of Wikipedia, so it's not en:-centric (or not intended to
be). Thus Arbitrator status, and certainly, of course, Stewards, are
Wikimedia-project-wide, and the people who will receive these cards will
understand that they confer extra 'status' of some kind, as you say. Neither
job are particularly easy to do, and a small amount of thanks like this is
perhaps not a bad thing.
Yours,
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James D. Forrester -- Wikimedia: [[W:en:User:Jdforrester|James F.]]
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