[Foundation-l] The foundations of the Wikimedia Foundation (was: Wikimedia Council)

Sat Jan 5 00:11:37 UTC 2008

On 1/5/08, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
> > In a democratic state, a parliament (or actually the people) is the
> > Final Authority.
>
> The WMF isn't a democracy. The analogy of a parliament works, but only
> if you think of it as being a parliament of a few hundred years ago.
> The monarch was the final authority and delegated certain powers to
> the parliament. I think that pretty accurately describes what Ant is
> suggesting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zemsky_Sobor

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