[Intlwiki-l] Re: [Wikipedia-l] Time to set up Wikimedia Project Committees
Elisabeth Bauer
elian at djini.de
Sun Jan 25 00:13:06 UTC 2004
Brion Vibber wrote:
> On Jan 24, 2004, at 15:04, Alex T. wrote:
>
>> Here is a proposal regarding the governance of individual Wikimedia
>> projects;
>> http://meta.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Project_Governing_Committees
>>
>> The idea is to give the members of each Wikipedia and all the other
>> projects, the
>> freedom to develop each project independently of any hierarchical
>> control by
>> the Board of Trustees.
>
> Err... the members of each Wikipedia and all the projects already have
> the freedom to develop each project independently of any hierachical
> control by the Board of Trustees. Wikimedia exists primarily to provide
> material support (ie, servers and hosting) and maintain 'brand
> awareness' (the trademark, domain names), doesn't it?
Could these points be stated explicitly in the bylaws, please? I got
another impression by reading the bylaws.
greetings,
elian
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