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

[David Gerard]

On 18/09/06, Gerard Meijssen <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com> wrote:

> *  Wikimedia Foundation is not about the English Wikipedia. If it was,
> the other projects should get out of the Wikimedia Foundation asap
> because it would make it the wrong place to grow their project.
> * It would be good to discriminate against the English Wikipedia because
> it gets too much attention. The alternative is that it cannot look after
> itself. If this is the case the project should organise itself and not
> be dependant on outside control.
> * Even the Neapolitan wikipedia has had articles in the Italian National
> Press. This is certainly true for all the bigger projects. If you think
> that the domination of the English wikipedia is so self evident, think
> again most of what happens around the other projects you do not know
> about. Also the growth of the other projects is faster than the English
> project. It will not take long and the other projects will be
> substantially bigger.
> If you choose a board member only because you think he or she is
> "nice".. you might consider if he of she will also be effective and do
> good for ALL the projects.


Would this sort of thinking be why it's almost impossible for someone
from en: to become a steward these days?


- d.