Talk:Transfer of authority
The following note was added to the top of the policy page. As it represents the opinion of Anthere, I am moving it to talk.
- Note : this is a personnal opinion, not yet officially shared by the community, the board or Jimbo (this note was written by Anthere)
- Anthere, the policy page describes the situation as the official bylaws and documents define it currently. It is just factually inaccurate to state that it is not shared by the community, board or Jimbo. The board may not yet have explicitly ratified the status quo beoynd consenting to run under the then active foundation bylaws, but Jimbo, and the community have been working on this basis for the last three years or more.
- I purposefully avoided adding one word of personal opinion to the text. It is written from the Community Point of View. If you think it is incorrect in the way it represents our current transfer of authority principles, please fix it, don't just slap on (factually inaccurate, I think) a banner claiming it to not be active, when it clearly is.
- I avoided adding my personal opinions to it, so that this talkpage might be used to hash out ways in which the status quo might need to be tweaked, or expanded upon. That is the nature of talk pages after all. But the text there, that is not a draft document, but a description of active principles as they currently stand. -- Cimon Avaro 03:37, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
- May I ask what *you* refer to as Wikimedia Statement of Principles in your text ? ant
- I've fairly extensively reworked that text to better reflect the balances between the various elements and the formal and informal nature of their influence. In particular, you seemed to place far too much emphasis on what Jimmy Wales may or may not authorise, when a significant part of his actual role is through influence rather than formal structures. Ultimately a project (effectively meaning the contributors who make up a project, or a substantial proportion of them) may choose to entirely ignore the desires of Jimmy Wales or the Wikimedia Foundation. Then we'd see how smoothly a trnsition from Wikimedia hosting to other hosting was handled and how well people would do at retaining cordial relations between people who largely share the same goals but may differ over how best to achieve them. Hopefully Jimmy Wales and the board will be able to provide a sufficiently broad umbrella that that doesn't happen... but time will tell. Jamesday 06:33, 30 Jul 2004 (UTC)
Ok, is this page still needed? There is a link to it on the Main page, but it seems Florence and Cimon Avaro debated on that two (almost three) years ago now :) jd ৸ 14:02, 7 August 2006 (UTC)