What about calling themselves elected community representatives of UK wikipedia editors?
A On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > 2008/12/15 Andrew Cates <[email protected]>: >> In my view yes. The WMF's legitimate role in representing the >> community is equally derived from its (semi) democratic nature. You do >> not derive your right to speak only from their democratic legitimacy >> but also from your own. >> >> You will not be able to speak on behalf of them (unless specifically >> mandated), but you are already able to speak on behalf of us for which >> you require no blessing from them (especially given the blessing is in >> the post). > > The problem with that is that no-one is going to care what "Wiki UK > Ltd." has to say on the issues. They would have to appear as > "Wikipedia volunteer" just as David does, since there is nothing else > relevant they could be called. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [email protected] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
