On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Nathan <nawr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Gregory Maxwell argues that the Wikimedia Foundation should > voluntarily submit to the type of openness required of government > agencies; I suspect this is a fundamental difference of philosophy, > and relates to why I mentioned "majority shareholder" in my initial > post. As the Wikimedia community, what level of detailed control are > we entitled to? We have some of the hallmarks of the role of the > shareholder but not others, in that legally we have no particular > rights to the Foundation but practically we control the Board > composition through elections. >
Greg raises a very strong point that demolishes your reply. You say "wikipedia is a business, therefore..." and of course... Wikipedia is not a bussiness (perhaps you mixed up with wikia?) _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l