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

[James Hare]

"I do not think it should count against her that she is an English
Wikipedian."

It could, if it turns out she is oblivious to issues in totally different
projects, such as the contentless Akan Wikipedia that doesn't even have an
admin to clean up the project. (I am not saying she isn't, I don't know if
she is or not.) We shouldn't even be considering what projects people are a
part of -- it's all about the Wikimedia.

On 9/16/06, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com> wrote:
>
> 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
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