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