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 <[email protected]> wrote: > On 9 May 2010 10:46, Jimmy Wales <[email protected]> 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 removed my ability to edit >> semi-protected pages! (I've kept permissions related to 'viewing' things.) >> >> I do not want to be a tyrant or dictator. I do not want us to fight >> about that kind of thing, as it's really a distraction from our work. > > Thanks for this, it is a very good move. I think this will have the > desired effect of allowing us to move on from discussing you and > discuss the actual issue. > > I notice you have kept "protect" and "undelete". Is that intentional? > If so, can you explain your thinking behind that decision? > > As someone else has mentioned in this thread, you have kept the rights > necessary to change your own rights in the future. It would probably > be best to remove them too. I'm assuming you don't intend to give > yourself back rights should you want to use them (that would make this > a meaningless gesture, which I've never known you make before), so you > have no need to keep those rights. > > I think you should also consider your admin rights on English > Wikipedia. I know they are historically a separate issue from your > founder rights, but since you have already voluntarily given up your > enwiki block rights, now might be the time to give up the rest too. > (You can use the founder flag for the various view rights, which I > think you are right to keep.) > > Thank you again for doing this - despite the fact that I've just been > picking holes in it, I really do think that even with these issues it > is an excellent thing to have done. The important this is the good > attitude you've shown in doing this. > > _______________________________________________ > foundation-l mailing list > [email protected] > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l > _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
