[Foundation-l] Bunners at the bottom of every page

[Thomas Dalton]

On 04/01/2008, Brion Vibber <brion at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> Sergey "putnik" Leschina wrote:
> > This is translation of discussion about banners with Ramir at the Forum:
> > http://ru.wikibooks.org/w/index.php?oldid=25807#.D0.9A.D0.BD.D0.BE.D0.BF.D0.BA.D0.B8_.D0.B2_.C2.AB.D0.BF.D0.BE.D0.B4.D0.B2.D0.B0.D0.BB.D0.B5.C2.BB_.D1.81.D1.82.D1.80.D0.B0.D0.BD.D0.B8.D1.86.D1.8B
> >
> > I'd already started this discussion before, but it was archived. Let
> > me repeat that every Foundation project should by default have banners
> > for the Foundation's and engine's websites. Removing #f-poweredbyico,
> > #f-copyrightico{display:none} from MediaWiki:Monobook.css would be
> > enough to restore them. --putnik
> >
> > You don't need to repeat. You need to provide [us/me] with a link to
> > Foundation's official requirements. Or I'll archive such advisors
> > again. --Ramir
> >
> > Isn't simple respect to those who host the project enough? --putnik
> >
> > The hosters have lost the respect of Wikibooks' users and benefactors
> > long ago. And they put advertisement for their [derogatory synonym for
> > 'profit'] in big Latin letters at the top of every page; one banner is
> > enough for them. --Ramir
>
> Sounds like a pretty clear-cut case of abuse of sysop powers.

Which is pretty inevitable when you only have one sysop. He's
effectively a god-king, and truely benevolent god-kings are hard to
come by. The solution would be to create some more sysops.