[WikiEN-l] Just what *is* Jimbo's role anyway?

[Stephen Bain]

On 3/21/07, stevertigo <stvrtg at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 3/20/07, Stephen Bain <stephen.bain at gmail.com> wrote:
> > At English Wikipedia level, he has an informal status as a leader
> > among the community. Historically - as a leader in the community - he
> > exercised various functions (arbitration, for example) until those
> > functions were delegated down (to the ArbCom, for example).
>
> Its important to understand that Jimbo has a well defined
> discretionary powers over the ArbCom. He has never used them though,
> just as the Queen of England has never "disbanded Parliament".

And indeed, a constitutional monarchy is the best analogy for the
English Wikipedia at the moment.

-- 
Stephen Bain
stephen.bain at gmail.com