[Foundation-l] thoughts on leakages

Sun Jan 13 15:49:02 UTC 2008

No, I would not have a use for it today. But today is not what I'm  
worried about: the future is.

-Dan
On Jan 13, 2008, at 4:03 AM, Lars Aronsson wrote:

> Dan Rosenthal wrote:
>
>> the community as a whole needs to do so, by having impeachment
>> power.
>
> Are you saying that if this mechanism existed today, you would
> find use for it today?
>
> I honestly can't imagine a situation where this would be needed.
> True, such a mechanism is a normal part of the bylaws of
> membership organizations (such as the WMF chapters), but the
> Wikimedia Foundation is not a membership organization.
>
> Wouldn't the introduction of this power in the WMF bylaws require
> a more clear definition of who the "community" is?  Is it just the
> writers, or does it include the readers?  Should the same
> qualifications be used as in previous board elections?
>
> I'm personally quite happy with the current situation.  So far the
> board hasn't made any major mistakes.  The servers are running and
> everybody should be happy. If the board would go mad, we do have
> copies of the database dumps and the right to fork.  If the board
> would want to run away with the money, there is very little to run
> away with, and this is a safeguard in itself.
>
>
> -- 
>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
>
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