On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 11:53 AM,  <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:fabian@unpopular.org.uk" target="_blank">fabian@unpopular.org.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">

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Essentially this would require the Board making a decision that it was<br>
interested in looking into the idea and setting up a steering committee to<br>
take the matter forward. This could be done with a limited amount of<br>
officer time.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The board would have to consult the Wikimedia Foundation and the English Wikipedia community on this and would be ill-advised (particularly in light of recent events) to go ahead with this decision without their support. In particular, jimbo&#39;s recent signpost article [1] seems fairly opposed to this direction of travel.</div>

<div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-01/Paid_editing">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2012-10-01/Paid_editing</a></div><div><br></div>

<div>If you&#39;re serious about taking this forward, I think you need to flesh out the proposals and see how they fit in with en-wp policies and statements of Foundation board members before it can be submitted to the WMUK board.</div>

<div><br></div><div>Why don&#39;t you set up a wiki page to gather ideas?</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div></div>