[WikiEN-l] Anonymous page creation will be reenabled on English Wikipedia.

[Casey Brown]

On 10/28/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 28/10/2007, Kwan Ting Chan <ktc at ktchan.info> wrote:
> > > Was hardcoding the banner necessary?
> >
> > The whole point was specifically so an admin can't just remove it.
>
> Says who? Sounds like an odd intention.
>
> > > The Foundation is generally very good, but I'd just like some formal
> > > restrictions in place (and more accountability to the community).
> >
> > The board of trustees can't reasonably be expected to be restricted by
> > what they can or cannot do (except by law) in the interest of the
> > charity. The members by law have to put the charity interest first and
> > foremost, even if it means possibly going against the wises / view of
> > the wider membership. The membership can of course decide to remove the
> > board / member(s) though.
> >
> > And yes, more accountability is always good.
>
> We can't remove the board, our only option if we disagree with them is
> to fork. We aren't members of the charity in the legal sense, legally
> speaking the board appoints all board members itself. The "elections"
> we have are purely advisory, there is nothing legally stopping the
> board from ignoring them.


Yup and this was discussed in detail during the most recent board
elections.  (For more information, see <
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Bylaws>).

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