As part of the charter, there could be a restriction that project based assemblies would have precedence over global decisions.
----- Original Message ---- From: Jesse Plamondon-Willard pathoschild@gmail.com To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 10:18:46 AM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Community Assembly
Geoffrey Plourde geo.plrd@yahoo.com wrote:
Just because a body is large does not mean that decisions will be bad. Are you saying that the community is too stupid to govern itself?
No, the "Community" you refer to is actually a collection of diverse communities. The English Wikipedia operates very differently from the way the English Wikisource operates, and they're not even different cultures. I imagine both operate very differently from the way the Urdu Wikipedia operates.
When you say the "Community" will make decisions by simple majority approval vote, you mean that all issues will be decided by a numerical superiority. This means the English Wikipedia, and the other major languages, will become the de facto leaders and policymakers for all wikis, regardless of those wikis' own preferences.
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