[Foundation-l] [WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Board Elections

[Jimmy Wales]

Gerard Meijssen wrote:
> Where you assume that Oscar needs introduction because of him being 
> little known in the English Wikipedia, the same is true for 
> Mindspillage. She is not well known outside of the English Wikipedia. 
> You did both Oscar and Mindspillage a disservice by not properly 
> introducing either.

Yes!  Well, I hope that others can do a better job than I can. :)

> Where you state that some are "entirely unacceptable", you forget that 
> democracy is about the electorate choosing it's champions.

Not at all.  I meant that some of the candidates are entirely 
unacceptable _from the point of view of the active Wikimedia community_.

> When a person is to be chosen for the board of the Wikimedia Foundation, 
> it has been said that it is extremely important that the notion of the 
> WMF being about the English Wikipedia is a false notion. I am afraid 
> that you damaged Mindspillage by portraying her as an English Wikipedia 
> person. I think all candidates that focus on Wikipedia in their 
> statements disqualify themselves as the Wikimedia Foundation is NOT 
> about Wikipedia.

No, I did not mean to imply that.  She is very very famous in the 
English Wikipedia, but she is much more than that.  I do not think it 
should count against her that she is an English Wikipedian. :)

--Jimbo