I don't see what's so wrong with an election, so long as there isn't a chance of a "bad" candidate winning (which of course there always is, but the candidacy can be monitored and chances are such a person won't win an election).
While I favour more community involvement in all areas of Wikimedia, I think that matters in the actual projects, such as stewards, new rules, &c, should all be democratically chosen by all Wikimedia-ans (I believe Tim made a page about the difference between people who are Wikipedians, Wiktionarians, Wikibooksians, Wikiquotians, Wikisourcians, Wikispecians, Wikinewsians, Commonsians, and/or Metans and people who are "Wikimedians" - that's why I use the term "Wikimedia-ans" to refer to participants from all projects) and I don't see a real excuse for not having this. (like the understandable excuses for not having democratic votes for all foundation matters)
In matters of this sort (I keep wanting to call them "domestic issues"), I believe the old maxim "VOX POPVLI VOX DEI" should apply and that there are no plausible reasons for it not to. The CIVES VICIPAEDIANI should be allowed to decide on such "internal affairs" insofar as their/our decisions do not threaten the continued existance of the Foundation or one of the projects, and do not go against the general philosophies of Wikimedia and the open-source movement in general.
But then that is just my opinion.
Mark
On 4/12/05, Angela beesley@gmail.com wrote:
On 4/13/05, Mark Williamson node.ue@gmail.com wrote:
I was pretty sure there were going to be elections, but I don't remember anything about them being in March... I thought it was may or july or something.
No date was ever set. The issue has been brought up a number of times over the last year, and Anthere created a page about elections at the start of March. Shortly after this, Jimbo said he wanted to appoint all stewards himself (See http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stewards/elections_2005#No_elections.3F) but never actually got round to doing so.
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