Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Samuel Klein
Mike.lifeguard writes: > I think you'll find that whenever you want to have something done that > should actually be done there will be no problem convincing > community members to do it... I think this will make folks > much more comfortable in accepting your guidance. Just so. Thank you, Jimbo.

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Joan Goma wrote: > The founder’s flag give to a single man a huge power. I can’t trust on > almost anybody to hold that power. Every steward holds that power. If I remember well, I think that stewards had a couple of more permissions than founder. ___

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Mike.lifeguard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote: > My purpose here is for us to stop chattering about this aspect of > things - which I don't care about. People seem to want to fight me > on it, perhaps expecting me to dig in my heels. Everyone loves a >

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Joan Goma
The founder’s flag give to a single man a huge power. I can’t trust on almost anybody to hold that power. But In less than two days Jimbo has resigned of this power. By doing this he has proven that he is one of the sparse people we can trust. Wikimedia movement is a complex system. Capacity to ta

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 9 May 2010 18:56, Jimmy Wales wrote: > On 5/9/10 4:18 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: >> I notice you have kept "protect" and "undelete". Is that intentional? >> If so, can you explain your thinking behind that decision? > > I just removed undelete, manage global groups, and edit membership to > globa

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Jimmy Wales
On 5/9/10 4:18 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > I notice you have kept "protect" and "undelete". Is that intentional? > If so, can you explain your thinking behind that decision? I just removed undelete, manage global groups, and edit membership to global groups. I did that before I saw your note, so

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Michael Peel
On 9 May 2010, at 17:57, Anthony wrote: > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote: > >> I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do >> things from the "Founder" flag. I even removed my ability to edit >> semi-protected pages! (I've kept permissions related to 'vie

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Anthony
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote: > I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do > things from the "Founder" flag. I even removed my ability to edit > semi-protected pages! (I've kept permissions related to 'viewing' things.) > The community recognizes that y

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Dan Rosenthal
On May 9, 2010, at 7:28 AM, Kim Bruning wrote: > On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 10:46:50AM +0100, Jimmy Wales wrote: >> >> In the interest of encouraging this discussion to be about real >> philosophical/content issues, rather than be about me and how quickly I >> acted, I've just now removed virtual

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread David Goodman
I agree that this ends the need for any immediate action by the community in this aspect of things. David Goodman, Ph.D, M.L.S. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:DGG On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Thomas Dalton wrote: > On 9 May 2010 10:46, Jimmy Wales wrote: >> >> In the interest of

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 9 May 2010 10:46, Jimmy Wales wrote: > > In the interest of encouraging this discussion to be about real > philosophical/content issues, rather than be about me and how quickly I > acted, I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do > things from the "Founder" flag.  I even re

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Mike.lifeguard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote: > In the interest of encouraging this discussion to be about real > philosophical/content issues, rather than be about me and how quickly I > acted, I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually d

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 10:46:50AM +0100, Jimmy Wales wrote: > > In the interest of encouraging this discussion to be about real > philosophical/content issues, rather than be about me and how quickly I > acted, I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do > things from the "F

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote: > In the interest of encouraging this discussion to be about real > philosophical/content issues, rather than be about me and how quickly I > acted, I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do > things from the "Founder" flag.

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote: > > In the interest of encouraging this discussion to be about real > philosophical/content issues, rather than be about me and how quickly I > acted, I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do > things from the "Founder" flag.

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Andre Engels
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Alec Conroy wrote: > On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote: >> >> I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do >> things from the "Founder" flag. > > I appreciate this step, but the community has now firmly rejected your > continued s

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Alec Conroy
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote: > > I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do > things from the "Founder" flag. I appreciate this step, but the community has now firmly rejected your continued status as "Founder flagged"-- you have not been asked to cut bac

[Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Jimmy Wales
In the interest of encouraging this discussion to be about real philosophical/content issues, rather than be about me and how quickly I acted, I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do things from the "Founder" flag. I even removed my ability to edit semi-protected pages!