[Foundation-l] Wikimedia Board Elections

[James Hare]

In short:

--Jimbo endorses Oscar and Mindspillage
--Everyone comes to criticise Jimbo for treating Mindspillage as if everyone
has heard of her
--Some other things... I haven't really been paying attention.

On 9/21/06, SJ <2.718281828 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/16/06, Stephen Streater <sbstreater at mac.com> wrote:
> >
> > On 16 Sep 2006, at 08:01, Jimmy Wales wrote:
> > > I invite an open discussion here of the candidates.  This is your
> > > community, speak openly of who you trust and why.
> >
> > Well, I'll start off then.
>
> I've missed a week of mail.  What was the spur for this thread?  Was
> there a sudden drop in candidate discussions online?  A rise in
> disendorsement?  An announcement of election results?
>
> I recall discussions of a more general nature -- involving input from
> the candidates -- the week that voting started.  Those never quite got
> off the ground... I suppose we could start building ad-hoc trust
> networks now to identify statistically-sound community reps for the
> future, but is this the way to go?  (are trust nets in use anywhere
> any more on de:wp?)
>
> I do wish that more wikimedians -- candidates and community members,
> in and out of election-time -- would write more often about their
> interests and concerns, in ways that support direct comparison and
> editing of one anothers' writing.  One of the strengths of wikis as
> media for conversations is how powerfully they allow subtle
> point-by-point disagreement without requiring* the rhetorical dance of
> ad hominems and clashing sweeping statements.
>
> SJ
>
> * ad hominems and sweeping statements are still allowed, but not
> required; and regularly lose out to persistent subtle discourse.  Of
> course more memorable cases may be those where they do not...
>
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