On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:42 AM, phoebe ayers <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 11:01 AM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I believe that we did this in... 2007, I think? (with open >>> endorsements). Anyway, it seemed to lead to cabal-ism and so was >>> dropped. >> >>> -- Phoebe >>> >> >> Don't take this personally, but who is "we" and who are the "cabals"? Who >> is in them and what is their agenda? >> >> Fred > > We = the foundation, by way of the election committee: see > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Board_elections/2007/en > > I said "cabal-ism", not specific cabals :) Meaning that endorsements > didn't seem that effective because everyone just endorsed the people > they knew. > But I wasn't on the election committee, and I'm writing this from > memory without looking at the lists archives etc, so hopefully someone > else has a more clear recollection of why it was tried and dropped can > say for sure.
grammar fail. How about: "Hopefully someone else who has a clearer recollection of why endorsements were tried, but dropped, can say for sure." _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
