[Foundation-l] Global rights proposal

[Nathan]

I think the one project one vote principle (or any deviation from one person
one vote) is unacceptable for a number of reasons. I'll list a few:

1) It grants undue weight to the opinion of individuals from small wikis
2) Its difficult to determine - who is from what project, what if they
contribute to multiple projects, what if someone has en.wp as a home wiki
but has contributed more to es.wp than some other voters considered to be
from es.wp community?
3) It requires a much more difficult process for determining consensus - a
single proposal on meta, with appropriate notification at all communities,
and held over a sufficient period of time is relatively easy to judge. On
the other hand if we're required to determine consensus at hundreds of local
projects (in all their attendant languages) just to compile the interwiki
vote... That will take forever and be subject to hordes of complaints and
objections.

The idea you're aiming at is that we should counteract the effect of the
largest projects on meta proposals by excluding or limiting the people from
these projects in some way. I don't know if you're bitter about the global
sysop proposal, or willing to violate basic principles of fairness and
community in order to make sure future proposals pass... But this notion is
unacceptable on its face.  When we make decisions for the wider community,
we make them as members of *that* community. Excluding en.wp voters because
they disagree with you by disenfranchising them in the Wikimedia community
is simply wrong.

Nathan