Re: [Wikimediauk-l] IWF issues and Wiki UK Ltd

2008-12-15 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/15 Andrew Cates and...@soschildren.org: In my view yes. The WMF's legitimate role in representing the community is equally derived from its (semi) democratic nature. You do not derive your right to speak only from their democratic legitimacy but also from your own. You will not be

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] IWF issues and Wiki UK Ltd

2008-12-15 Thread Andrew Cates
What about calling themselves elected community representatives of UK wikipedia editors? A On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com wrote: 2008/12/15 Andrew Cates and...@soschildren.org: In my view yes. The WMF's legitimate role in representing the community is

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] IWF issues and Wiki UK Ltd

2008-12-15 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/15 Andrew Cates and...@soschildren.org: What about calling themselves elected community representatives of UK wikipedia editors? That won't fit in the caption. ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org

[Wikimediauk-l] IWF issues and Wiki UK Ltd

2008-12-14 Thread AndrewRT
I just wanted to hear everyone's views about the role Wiki UK Ltd played in responding to the IWF issues. The general consensus among the Board was that we shouldn't really get involved as we didn't yet have chapter status. Individuals were encouraged to do what they could but the Board decided

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] IWF issues and Wiki UK Ltd

2008-12-14 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/14 AndrewRT ratur...@yahoo.co.uk: The general consensus among the Board was that we shouldn't really get involved as we didn't yet have chapter status. Individuals were encouraged to do what they could but the Board decided to stay stum itself and leave David and others to take the

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] IWF issues and Wiki UK Ltd

2008-12-14 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/14 AndrewRT ratur...@yahoo.co.uk: I just wanted to hear everyone's views about the role Wiki UK Ltd played in responding to the IWF issues. The general consensus among the Board was that we shouldn't really get involved as we didn't yet have chapter status. Individuals were

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] IWF issues and Wiki UK Ltd

2008-12-14 Thread Andrew Cates
I would not have bothered to vote if I did not feel the board in some way represented the community of which I am part. There is an organization where I am a member for pragmatic reasons but hate every proclamation they make (the AA: I want breakdown cover, not rabid pro-polluting lobbying), but

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] IWF issues and Wiki UK Ltd

2008-12-14 Thread AndrewRT
On Dec 14, 9:32 pm, Andrew Cates and...@soschildren.org wrote: ... for this kind of thing I think you should feel we want you to speak and we'll let you know if we disagree. Even before we're officially a WMF chapter? Andrew ___ Wikimedia UK