Re: [Foundation-l] Elections in the pontic wikipedia

2009-01-27 Thread Ziko van Dijk
Sorry, I only later saw that the pontic Wikipedia is still not created. It would be not good to have non created Wikipedias in the list of Tell Us. Kind regards Ziko 2009/1/27 Zaharias Diakonikolaou > Hello, > > The previous week, we the pontic wikipedia community arranged a meeting in > our cha

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections in the pontic wikipedia

2009-01-27 Thread Zaharias Diakonikolaou
Hello, The previous week, we the pontic wikipedia community arranged a meeting in our channel in IRC chat. There we thought that we should make elections in order to be prepared for the creation of the wiki and so we decided who would be the candidates for administrators and that we should also ha

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections in the pontic wikipedia

2009-01-27 Thread Dan Rosenthal
This indeed. Good for them for dealing with these issues in advance rather than waiting until the need for a crat is critical. -Dan On Jan 27, 2009, at 1:03 PM, Muhammad Alsebaey wrote: > +1 on them having their own crat and admins since they were > approved, what > possible harm could that h

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections in the pontic wikipedia

2009-01-27 Thread Muhammad Alsebaey
+1 on them having their own crat and admins since they were approved, what possible harm could that have? they can always self-correct as the community gets bigger is the choices are not optimum. On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Philippe|Wiki wrote: > While we can always learn from best practices

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections in the pontic wikipedia

2009-01-27 Thread Philippe|Wiki
While we can always learn from best practices, I firmly believe it's best to leave local governance to local communities. If they want to have admins and crats, and have set up an election system with appropriate controls and a system of checks and balances, good for them.

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections in the pontic wikipedia

2009-01-27 Thread Gerard Meijssen
Hoi, Have a look at the Incubator, at the project request, they ARE the people who will be the Pontic Wikipedia community. There is nothing wrong with the stewards but when there is no need for them, they will be the last to complain. Thanks, GerardM 2009/1/27 Huib Laurens > Hello, > > why

Re: [Foundation-l] Elections in the pontic wikipedia

2009-01-27 Thread Huib Laurens
Hello, why should a wiki have a bureaucrat before it is created? A lot of small wikis doesn't have a crat and stewards will do the job. The same for admins, why not keep the test admins. I don't see why it is important to have admins before a wiki is created or has a comnunety. Best regards,

[Foundation-l] Elections in the pontic wikipedia

2009-01-27 Thread Zaharias Diakonikolaou
The pontic wikipedia (which has been approved but it hasn't been created yet) is running elections to vote its admins and bureaucrats. This is done as a preparation for our creation, in order to be ready for the moment when we can finally start for real. Everyone who would like to vote is welcome