[Foundation-l] Re: Swedish, Spanish, French Wikinews set up

[Michael Snow]

Erik Moeller wrote:

> Daniel Mayer schrieb:
>
>> And you are not in a position to go against the will of any wiki user
>> community.  
>
> That is your opinion. In my opinion, it is the will of the Wikimedia 
> community as a whole which counts. Wikimedia is a global project. It's 
> not up to the French Wikimedia community to decide by majority that 
> they don't want Wikinews, unless they have France-specific reasons for 
> not wanting it. And I am supported in this both by policy and by 
> statements of the Board to this effect, when I asked them this very 
> question two months ago. Yes, I asked the Board whether we should 
> treat the French Wikinews differently from the others because of the 
> way the vote went, and the answer was no - I can document this with 
> IRC chatlogs if necessary.

Yes, please do. Some of us would very much like to know why this was so 
clear to you, based on your communications with the Board, and 
apparently not clear to Anthere, given that she is part of this same Board.

--Michael Snow