Ulrich Fuchs wrote:
I hereby appoint Kurt to be Vice President, Germany, of the international Wikimedia Foundation.
Sorry Jimmy, but that's exactly the top-down strategy that should be reconsidered soon.
How is it top-down? If you all want to get together and elect someone, or if consensus on de.wikipedia.org is that some particular person should be the official spokesperson, then that can be done without any need for a new organization formed against my wishes or international oversight of any kind.
My point is that the argument "we need to have a spokesperson in Germany with an official title" is *not* in any way an argument for a separate organization. If someone needs a title, we can make arrangements for that already. It's a complete nonissue.
--Jimbo