[Foundation-l] wikicouncil

[Erik Zachte]

James, this is not about the Advisory Board, where external participation is
welcomed.
This is about the Wikicouncil, as discussed on
http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikicouncil

Erik Zachte

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Hare [mailto:messedrocker at gmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, 19 November 2006 19:10
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] wikicouncil
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> I feel that if we were to set up a secondary council, it should be that of
> outside people with talents that would be beneficial to the Foundation.
>
> On 11/19/06, Anthere <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > I write this email with much hesitation.
> > The issue has been raised often, the possible creation of a council.
> > Naturally, setting up such a structure is bound to be difficult, due to
> > the following issues to discuss and decide
> > * what would be the roles of such a council ?
> > * would that council vote the people to become Wikimedia Foundation
> > board members ?
> > * would this council become a sort of goverment of the project ?
> > * how would people be added to this council (and along with which rules,
> > depending on project size, languages etc...)
> > * ...
> >
> > In short, a nest of questions.
> >
> >
> > The issue has been raised many times already.
> > If there are people interested in setting up a proposal, please just
> > tell me. I am not talking of "discussion" here, I am talking of "writing
> > down a proposal". On which the board could have a look. On which the
> > community could comment and then vote.
> >
> > Anyway, if interested, jsut tell me and we can organise a little chat
> > and a page about that. If noone interested, time will see :-)
> >
> > Ant
> >
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