[Foundation-l] Term of service?

Mon May 22 22:31:49 UTC 2006

THD wrote:

>Hi, Friends,
>There are some people proposing a policy for administrator's term of service
>in Chinese Wikipedia. In the proposing policy, when the term of service is
>over, administrators shall get their administrative power through a
>re-election. I want to know that is there any Wikimedia project with this
>kind of policy? In my own opinion, this is quite weird. I want to know what
>will other language editions do when facing this kind of proposal. Thanks.
>THD
>
I think that this idea should be strongly discouraged on the Chinese 
Wikipedia.  As long as the people in the PRC are not fully represented 
because of their government's actions, this sort of action could easily 
be seen as discriminatory.

Ec