I don't see what's so wrong with an election, so long as there isn't a
chance of a "bad" candidate winning (which of course there always is,
but the candidacy can be monitored and chances are such a person won't
win an election).
While I favour more community involvement in all areas of Wikimedia, I
think that matters in the actual projects, such as stewards, new
rules, &c, should all be democratically chosen by all Wikimedia-ans (I
believe Tim made a page about the difference between people who are
Wikipedians, Wiktionarians, Wikibooksians, Wikiquotians,
Wikisourcians, Wikispecians, Wikinewsians, Commonsians, and/or Metans
and people who are "Wikimedians" - that's why I use the term
"Wikimedia-ans" to refer to participants from all projects) and I
don't see a real excuse for not having this. (like the understandable
excuses for not having democratic votes for all foundation matters)
In matters of this sort (I keep wanting to call them "domestic
issues"), I believe the old maxim "VOX POPVLI VOX DEI" should apply
and that there are no plausible reasons for it not to. The CIVES
VICIPAEDIANI should be allowed to decide on such "internal affairs"
insofar as their/our decisions do not threaten the continued existance
of the Foundation or one of the projects, and do not go against the
general philosophies of Wikimedia and the open-source movement in
general.
But then that is just my opinion.
Mark
On 4/12/05, Angela <beesley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 4/13/05, Mark Williamson <node.ue(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
I was pretty sure there were going to be
elections, but I don't
remember anything about them being in March... I thought it was may or
july or something.
No date was ever set. The issue has been brought up a number of times
over the last year, and Anthere created a page about elections at the
start of March. Shortly after this, Jimbo said he wanted to appoint
all stewards himself (See
<http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Talk:Stewards/elections_2005#No_elections.3F>)
but never actually got round to doing so.
Angela.
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