While I'm sure most readers understand these principles well already, they are worth restating: the Foundation is not a wiki. It is not purely a democracy. Greater democracy has not, to my knowledge, been shown to correspond with greater effectiveness in non-profit management. The WMF is not a membership organization. Legally, the practice of allowing the editing community to elect members to its board is voluntary.
I'm not arguing that the community doesn't often have good input, or that a general ethic of transparency and cooperation isn't an extremely positive characteristic of the Foundation. In fact, the support of the community is absolutely crucial to its survival. I merely want to suggest that the tone of entitlement evident in some recent posts to wikimedia-l is misplaced. Nathan _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
