[Foundation-l] Re: Poll for Wikistandards

Sat Jan 28 03:53:47 UTC 2006

On 1/28/06, Robert Scott Horning <robert_horning at netzero.net> wrote:

> One other issue that needs to be dealt with immediately is the
> opposition vote by a member of the Wikimedia Foundation board.

Two members of the Board were elected by the community, so,
unsurprisingly, those two people are going to be involved in community
matters like this poll. I realise some people would prefer the Board
be made only of external people, but with the current situation,
you're going to have to accept that at least two people on the Board
have dual roles of being on the Board and being Wikimedians. I am not
going to accept the constant attempts to prevent me expressing any
opinion outside of official meetings.

We will soon have the Special Projects Committee
<http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolution_Special_projects> to
decide things like this, so I can't see the results of the poll going
directly to the stage of Board decision anyway. Since we're delegating
authority away from the Board, my view on the matter, as someone not
intending to be on the SP Committee, isn't any more relevant than that
of anyone else voting.

Angela.