On 6/20/06, Kirill Lokshin kirill.lokshin@gmail.com wrote:
On 6/19/06, The Cunctator cunctator@gmail.com wrote:
- Al Gore
Is having a highly prominent -- and still very active -- political figure on the board such a good idea? Something like that will inevitably raise questions about Wikipedia's neutrality in political issues;
Agreed, and I strongly oppose that idea. Not personally, but all candidates from the US political world. It can be somehow benefical for managing the WMF in the USA, but at the same time it can place a certain tention between other political groups, including the outside the USA both the external of the project and within the community. Please remember, the majority of editors are * not * US citizens, and I convince many of them do never want to US political debates at all. It can even a cause of forks, specially the majority of population against or not favor of US foreign policy, I predict.