[Foundation-l] on (re)organizing wikimedia

[Kelly Martin]

On 6/10/06, Nathan Carter <magnaboy at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> I have quite a large number of opinions on this.
> There needs to be an executive in place with the subcommittees which can
> act relatively autonomously but are responsible to the executive. At the
> same time I would like to see us have Wikicouncil, where people from the
> projects meet to discuss them and issues arising out of them.
>
> Wikicouncil would then have someone who reported back to the executive
> and again be responsible to them.
>
> The fact is, Joe and Joanne editor couldn't really care less how the
> organisation is ran so long as everything works. The organisation needs
> to be ran by experts with a small amount of accountability to the user
> base (which I feel Wikicouncil would achieve)

I've long believed that we should have a council/assembly/etc.
composed of representatives selected by each project; this body should
elect, at the very least, some portion of the board of directors.

Kelly