Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Alec Conroy
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com wrote: I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do things from the Founder flag. I appreciate this step, but the community has now firmly rejected your continued status as Founder flagged-- you have not been

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Andre Engels
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:59 AM, Alec Conroy alecmcon...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com wrote: I've just now removed virtually all permissions to actually do things from the Founder flag. I appreciate this step, but the community has now

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread John Vandenberg
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 7:46 PM, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com 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

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com 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

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Kim Bruning
On Sun, May 09, 2010 at 10:46:50AM +0100, Jimmy Wales 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

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Mike.lifeguard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Jimmy Wales 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

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 9 May 2010 10:46, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com 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

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread David Goodman
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 thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 May 2010 10:46, Jimmy Wales

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Anthony
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com wrote: 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.) The community

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Michael Peel
On 9 May 2010, at 17:57, Anthony wrote: On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 5:46 AM, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com wrote: 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

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Jimmy Wales
On 5/9/10 4:18 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: I notice you have kept protect and undelete. Is that intentional? If so, can you explain your thinking behind that decision? I just removed undelete, manage global groups, and edit membership to global groups. I did that before I saw your note, so I

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Thomas Dalton
On 9 May 2010 18:56, Jimmy Wales jwa...@wikia-inc.com wrote: On 5/9/10 4:18 PM, Thomas Dalton wrote: I notice you have kept protect and undelete. Is that intentional? If so, can you explain your thinking behind that decision? I just removed undelete, manage global groups, and edit membership

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Joan Goma
The founder’s flag give to a single man a huge power. I can’t trust on almost anybody to hold that power. But In less than two days Jimbo has resigned of this power. By doing this he has proven that he is one of the sparse people we can trust. Wikimedia movement is a complex system. Capacity to

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Mike.lifeguard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 37-01--10 03:59 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote: My purpose here is for us to stop chattering about this aspect of things - which I don't care about. People seem to want to fight me on it, perhaps expecting me to dig in my heels. Everyone loves a

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Milos Rancic
On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 10:37 PM, Joan Goma jrg...@gmail.com wrote: The founder’s flag give to a single man a huge power. I can’t trust on almost anybody to hold that power. Every steward holds that power. If I remember well, I think that stewards had a couple of more permissions than founder.

Re: [Foundation-l] Removing questions about me and my role from this discussion

2010-05-09 Thread Samuel Klein
Mike.lifeguard writes: I think you'll find that whenever you want to have something done that should actually be done there will be no problem convincing community members to do it... I think this will make folks much more comfortable in accepting your guidance. Just so. Thank you, Jimbo.