Hello, 2010/5/8 Samuel Klein <meta...@gmail.com>: (...) >> This isn't an ideal situation. We should have a situation in which >> Jimmy's technical power derives from the authority of the board of >> trustees or from a community mandate, or we should have a situation in >> which Jimmy does not have unlimited technical power. > > I don't think this is a technical issue at all. Considering how > flexible and reversible wiki-actions are, it seems eminently > appropriate to me for the project founder to have 'unlimited technical > power' on the projects -- just as you and all of our developers do, at > a much higher level.
I beg to disagree. I don't see why Jimmy, as project founder, should have 'unlimited technical power' on the projects, unless you think that the community is not able to reach and implement decisions by itself. > English Wikipedia has addressed this fluidly over the years: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales It is not because this worked on English WP up to now that it should be the same on all WM projects. > I'm not sure anyone has tried to address the role of developers > through policy ;-) > > SJ Regards, Yann _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
