[Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

[Andre Engels]

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Alec Conroy <alecmconroy at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia-inc.com> wrote:
>>
>> I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do
>> things from the "Founder" flag.
>
> I appreciate this step, but the community has now firmly rejected your
> continued status as "Founder flagged"-- you have not been asked to cut
> back on your privileges, you are being ordered to relinquish your
> founder flag.
>
> I'm happy that you're beginning to question your earlier actions, but
> your founder status is not for you to decide.   Currently it's 3-to-1
> against you continuing in this role.   If that doesn't change, you
> need to abide by it.

I disagree. Those objections are not against the idea of a founder
flag, but against his rights, or rather the way he used these rights.
If those rights are significantly curtailed, we have a different
situation, and not everyone who was against the extensive rights will
be against the narrower ones as well. In fact, I would say that
letting Jimbo remain Founder, but remove several rights from that
position would be very fitting in the Wikimedia way of working: Not
voting, but searching consensus for a compromise.

-- 
André Engels, andreengels at gmail.com