[Foundation-l] The foundations of the Wikimedia Foundation (was: Wikimedia Council)

[Thomas Dalton]

> I can easily see a way around it.
>
> The same method as has been sometimes suggested as a regulated
> workflow on the monolingual arbcoms, and is defacto happening at
> least on the english wikipedia arbcom, in a fairly granularized manner.
>
> Not have every arbcom member available for each case.
>
> It might work on the basis of having a dedicated French language
> section of the arbcom, a Dutch language section of the arbcom,
> a Portuguese language section of the arbcom and so forth, with
> co-mingling between arbitrators from different language teams
> being an exception rather than a rule.
>
> Or it might be that every arbcom case would work on a pick and
> mix principle, with arbitrators specifically announcing they are
> available for a case, either being able to understand the working
> language, or bringing in an assistant to help them understand
> the issues as they pertain to things said in the working language.
>
> The fact that this would entail bringing in a fairly large pool of
> arbitrators, to me is a plus than a negative, as it would naturally
> decrease the workload on any one arbitrator.

If you're doing that, you might as well just give the cases to
randomly chosen local arbcoms. It's an idea to consider, but I think a
true meta-arbcom would be better.