Thyge, Craig, Dan, Rogol, Max, Neil, Mike, Ryan, Pete, Yair, and Leigh, here are some questions I'd like you to answer, neither of which are rhetorical:

First, what attracts you to the free culture movement?

What freedoms do you personally hold as ideal?

Finally, what does the Foundation's Mission statement mean when it says to "empower and engage people around the world to collect and develop educational content"? Does that mean political power?

The WMF should not be taking political stances without input and consensus from the community.

The community has (s)elected the Board of Trustees, and the Board has delegated policy-making authority to Ms. Maher. If you believe this to be a mistake then you should run for the Board on that platform and make your case if and when you are (s)elected. In my view Ms. Maher has a more reasonable outlook than all of the Board's members I know enough about to have formed an opinion on put together, and she has been repeatedly proving it through her commendable actions, statements, and efforts.

Nothing proves this more than Ms. Maher's message a few minutes ago on the new strategy process. I take back all my previously stated reservations. I was especially pleased to see this:

Community Process Steering Committee [are discussing how to] engage more "quiet" members of our community....

That is *sorely* needed. Most of our best content creators don't want to stick their neck out in policy discussions, even on their projects' noticeboards and often even on talk pages, because of the risk of harassment, reputation polarization, stereotyping, attracting stalkers and tag teams, or putting their contributions into the cross-hairs of organized advocacy efforts.

I would *love* to see a frequent and statistically robust anonymous channel from content creators to project and Foundation policymakers consisting of more than just a 20 minute survey every couple years.