Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
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The WMF as a membership organisation would be great, but I don't think
it is practical. A better option (which I have discussed with a few
poeple) would be having the chapters as members of the WMF and the
community as members of the chapters. There are other global
non-profits that work along those lines. (The International Federation
of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, for example.)
Why? What's broken at the moment? The servers are running,
and I really cannot see how a different form of organization
would have any favourable impact on a few million people
writing the best free encyclopedia (*1) in this solar sys-
tem. Not to speak of this thing with the sum of all know-
ledge being shared by every single human being.
I think most people want the WMF to do more than just keep the servers
running, though. It is the extra stuff that depends on good
governance.