On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Mark Ryan <ultrab...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have to agree with you, Anthere. It's starting to look like over > time the role of the board has evolved from broad guidance and > administration to some sort of twisted version of enwp's Arbitration > Committee. When the board was first created, it wasn't particularly > political and its members were simply those who were most well-known > and respected from across the Wikimedia communities. Now, at least > some of the board members appear to be of the opinion that they have > become the ultimate arbiters of what should be included in Wikimedia > projects. They are not, and this will eventually become patently clear > to them when their seats are due for re-election. >
Just throwing in a link to a page Anthere wrote summarizing the "role of a board member", which might be useful here: <http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Board_member> -- Casey Brown Cbrown1023 _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l