2009/8/28 Tim Landscheidt <[email protected]>: > Thomas Dalton <[email protected]> wrote: > >> [...] >> The WMF as a membership organisation would be great, but I don't think >> it is practical. A better option (which I have discussed with a few >> poeple) would be having the chapters as members of the WMF and the >> community as members of the chapters. There are other global >> non-profits that work along those lines. (The International Federation >> of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, for example.) > > Why? What's broken at the moment? The servers are running, > and I really cannot see how a different form of organization > would have any favourable impact on a few million people > writing the best free encyclopedia (*1) in this solar sys- > tem. Not to speak of this thing with the sum of all know- > ledge being shared by every single human being.
I think most people want the WMF to do more than just keep the servers running, though. It is the extra stuff that depends on good governance. _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
