[Foundation-l] The Foundation is not a wiki (was Re: RfC: Key priorities for my work)

[geni]

On 9/25/06, Birgitte SB <birgitte_sb at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I really don't know the history there (that is just a
> disclaimer not a request).  Still I think the best
> approach is start within the community and gather
> consensus on what is wanted internally and then to
> come here for support.

No we tried that last time. The result was messy.

>A strong idea of what en.WP
> *does* want will be much easier to gather support for
> than a negative position (i.e. no Jimbo).

Gather support? If I go to the effort of putting together something on
en that gets at least acceptance from most people I do not then want
to be in the position of having to gather support for something I have
already put together at rather a lot of effort into.

>  So I
> encourage you to try work on coming to a positive
> position internally at en.WP.  I think it would be
> really great to see a large diverse community like
> en.WP come to consensus on how to hold an internal
> election.

I can't do that if people know that anything they put together can be
just brushed aside


>It would be a concrete example for everyone
> interested in the "indirect election" format to
> evaluate.
>

No it would not be. Unfortunately historically this has tended to be
the case but the ideal arbcom is not the ideal group of people to
represent en.wikipedia.


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geni