[WikiEN-l] Wikimedia Board Elections

Sat Sep 16 18:53:08 UTC 2006

On 16 Sep 2006, at 19:18, David Mestel wrote:

> If I may add my personal opinion, I do not think that it was
> appropriate for Jimmy to declare public support for any candidate.
> Here's why: In some sense, Jimmy's role is to be an impartial
> adjudicator, facilitating to a great extent the views of the
> community, although obviously also keeping the greater good of
> Wikipedia in mind.  In some ways, indeed, one might draw an analogy
> between this and a hypothetical situation where the monarch encouraged
> the electorate to vote one way or the other.  Just my $0.02.

I'd rather have more information than less.
The more people who disucss this election,
the more informed the eventual decision will be.