[WikiEN-l] Re: Arbitration Committee elections, 2005 - still no information!
Anthere
Anthere9 at yahoo.com
Mon Nov 28 21:47:15 UTC 2005
Anthony DiPierro wrote:
> On 11/28/05, Delirium <delirium at hackish.org> wrote:
>
>>Anthony DiPierro wrote:
>>
>>>Umm, the ArbCom's power comes from Jimbo as President of the Wikimedia
>>>Foundation. The "community" can run its own election if it wants, but
>>>Jimbo and the board choose how to spend the funds of the foundation
>>>and how to administer the property of the foundation (such as the
>>>servers).
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Only in a legalistic sense. The Wikimedia Foundation's server ownership
>>would be completely useless without a community willing to volunteer to
>>write an encyclopedia that can be hosted on them.
>>
>>-Mark
>
>
> And the community would be completely useless without the servers.
> Somewhere between the two a consensus needs to be reached. The
> community can't overthrow the arb com without the support of the
> board, and the board can't institute the arb com without the support
> of the community.
>
> Anthony
For the record, there is also a french arbcom, and its organisation has
been entirely set up by the french community. All members have been 100%
elected by the editorship.
ant
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