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

[Luiz Augusto]

On 9/19/06, Kelly Martin <kelly.lynn.martin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/19/06, Jon Harald Søby <jhsoby at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Anyways, my point was that indirect elections _might_ turn out to have
> > inaccurate results (though that is a rather rare situation), and that
> > it would be especially hard to arrange this on Wikimedia projects.
>
> Indirect election of officials in voluntary organizations with large,
> geographically diverse membership is common and may actually be the
> norm.


{{citation needed}}

 (...)

Let's also not forget that direct democracy elected Hitler, and yet we
> still use it as well.


 [[Godwin's Law]] ?