[Foundation-l] on (re)organizing wikimedia

[Nathan Carter]

Kelly Martin wrote:

>On 6/10/06, Nathan Carter <magnaboy at westnet.com.au> wrote:
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>>I have quite a large number of opinions on this.
>>There needs to be an executive in place with the subcommittees which can
>>act relatively autonomously but are responsible to the executive. At the
>>same time I would like to see us have Wikicouncil, where people from the
>>projects meet to discuss them and issues arising out of them.
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>>Wikicouncil would then have someone who reported back to the executive
>>and again be responsible to them.
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>>The fact is, Joe and Joanne editor couldn't really care less how the
>>organisation is ran so long as everything works. The organisation needs
>>to be ran by experts with a small amount of accountability to the user
>>base (which I feel Wikicouncil would achieve)
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>I've long believed that we should have a council/assembly/etc.
>composed of representatives selected by each project; this body should
>elect, at the very least, some portion of the board of directors.
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>Kelly
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I agree there should be a Wikicouncil setup which has an influence on 
the executive, but I do not believe that the executive needs to be 
elected by the "community". Sure, the community may have a little 
influence but we need to remember that the community is a seperate 
entity to the foundation itself.
Cheers,
Nathan.