Gerard Meijssen wrote:
Where you assume that Oscar needs introduction because
of him being
little known in the English Wikipedia, the same is true for
Mindspillage. She is not well known outside of the English Wikipedia.
You did both Oscar and Mindspillage a disservice by not properly
introducing either.
Yes! Well, I hope that others can do a better job than I can. :)
Where you state that some are "entirely
unacceptable", you forget that
democracy is about the electorate choosing it's champions.
Not at all. I meant that some of the candidates are entirely
unacceptable _from the point of view of the active Wikimedia community_.
When a person is to be chosen for the board of the
Wikimedia Foundation,
it has been said that it is extremely important that the notion of the
WMF being about the English Wikipedia is a false notion. I am afraid
that you damaged Mindspillage by portraying her as an English Wikipedia
person. I think all candidates that focus on Wikipedia in their
statements disqualify themselves as the Wikimedia Foundation is NOT
about Wikipedia.
No, I did not mean to imply that. She is very very famous in the
English Wikipedia, but she is much more than that. I do not think it
should count against her that she is an English Wikipedian. :)
--Jimbo