On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 7:25 AM, Tom Holden <thomas.holden(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I would be very very wary about removing people from
the list even if
you have definite proof that they've committed some rather more
heinous sin than using a sock. If that's an issue that should
disqualify people from standing, we have to trust that the voters will
have the sense to realise this. (Obviously we want to take reasonable
precautions against both a user and their sock voting, but that's a
different issue entirely.)
Yes. Keep in mind that you guys are a separate legal entity with no
formal ties to the WMF projects, or the users who use them. Consider
this a very firm suggestion that you not tie your membership nor
leadership to actions on any one particular wiki, especially wikis
that you do not own or control. This helps on both ends because it
keeps you independent from decisions/actions made by the WMF or
decisions made by volunteers on the wiki, and it also helps to protect
the wiki from chapters who start to feel a personal ownership over the
projects and attempt to exert undue control over them because of it.
--Andrew Whitworth