[Foundation-l] Community Assembly

[Geoffrey Plourde]

As part of the charter, there could be a restriction that project based assemblies would have precedence over global decisions. 


----- Original Message ----
From: Jesse Plamondon-Willard <pathoschild at gmail.com>
To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Monday, May 12, 2008 10:18:46 AM
Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Community Assembly

Geoffrey Plourde <geo.plrd at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just because a body is large does not mean that decisions will be bad. Are you saying that the community is too stupid to govern itself?

No, the "Community" you refer to is actually a collection of diverse
communities. The English Wikipedia operates very differently from the
way the English Wikisource operates, and they're not even different
cultures. I imagine both operate very differently from the way the
Urdu Wikipedia operates.

When you say the "Community" will make decisions by simple majority
approval vote, you mean that all issues will be decided by a numerical
superiority. This means the English Wikipedia, and the other major
languages, will become the de facto leaders and policymakers for all
wikis, regardless of those wikis' own preferences.

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Yours cordially,
Jesse Plamondon-Willard (Pathoschild)

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