Florence Devouard wrote:
The way I read it (forgive me if I am wrong), your email seems to be implying that this is a suggestion from WMF. It is not so. It has not been discussed on the board, and even less agreed upon. Take it for what it is, a simple suggestion by one person, not a wmf suggestion.
Note that there is chance other suggestions are made by board members during elections time. Please take these suggestions as platform discussion, not as wmf position.
Thanks
Ant
Permit me if I may, there have been many "suggestions" that have been made on this list recently with the seeming official stamp of approval (some with notes of discussion of the WMF board, others not so much), and this is the thinking of at least one member of that board. Quite often discussions like this quickly turn into actual policy and have impact directly on individual projects, and this is a radical policy change. And this proposal/suggestion was not made in the context of any upcoming elections or any campaign platform.
In this case, some substantial opposition to this proposal has been voiced, and there is some concern that this may have even more widespread support among board members than just this one individual. Since most of us aren't privy to most board discussions, it can be difficult to tell if this is something that has been discussed at length previously or simply a random thought.
I do appreciate that you have voiced at least a neutral attitude toward this idea as perhaps a future direction for Wikimedia projects.