No, I would not have a use for it today. But today is not what I'm worried about: the future is.
-Dan On Jan 13, 2008, at 4:03 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Dan Rosenthal wrote:
the community as a whole needs to do so, by having impeachment power.
Are you saying that if this mechanism existed today, you would find use for it today?
I honestly can't imagine a situation where this would be needed. True, such a mechanism is a normal part of the bylaws of membership organizations (such as the WMF chapters), but the Wikimedia Foundation is not a membership organization.
Wouldn't the introduction of this power in the WMF bylaws require a more clear definition of who the "community" is? Is it just the writers, or does it include the readers? Should the same qualifications be used as in previous board elections?
I'm personally quite happy with the current situation. So far the board hasn't made any major mistakes. The servers are running and everybody should be happy. If the board would go mad, we do have copies of the database dumps and the right to fork. If the board would want to run away with the money, there is very little to run away with, and this is a safeguard in itself.
-- Lars Aronsson (lars@aronsson.se) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
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