[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia Leadership (was NY Times article on gender gap in Wikipedia contributors} - repost

[Marc Riddell]

on 2/1/11 9:22 PM, Fred Bauder at fredbaud at fairpoint.net wrote:

> 
>> Fred, please re-read what I said. The Council would be a body elected by
>> the
>> Community. How is that arbitrary? Why would their be loss of volunteer
>> and
>> donor support? And, I specifically said that the Council would have
>> nothing
>> to do with day-to-day editing or behavioral disputes. Where is the loss
>> of
>> independence?
>> 
>> Marc
> 
> You were talking about something else. However even the council is a bad
> idea with anonymous editors electing it. We have no idea what kind of
> skulduggery is involved. Secret ballot by anonymous people; what kind of
> sense does that make?
> 
Your use of the word "skulduggery" in this context is very telling, Fred.

Marc