On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 2:34 PM, Risker <[email protected]> wrote: > The only people in the WMF projects I regularly participate in who are > formally recognized as leaders are the WMF trustees. I would love to see > them being more public in sharing their opinions, their observations and > their experiences; they have the opportunity to see things from a very > different and much broader perspective than those of us at ground level. I > am sure that HaeB would be happy to find a place on Signpost for a monthy > "Discussion with a Trustee" that could then be flipped over to Translatewiki > or wherever to share with multiple other projects.
Not a bad idea, I'll mention it to the rest of the Board. Note that I think sometimes board members hesitate to speak up on various topics because of the danger of one's personal opinion being taken as an Official Board Position or Official Foundation Policy. (Even when one knows better this is an easy distinction to blur). Opinions are as diverse and numerous among the board as they are among any group of thoughtful and experienced Wikimedians, but when the board has an official position on something of course we speak as a body. As for Marc's question about project governance, Fred has it right; projects are run by their communities. The Wikimedia Foundation, which provides infrastructure support to those projects, is run by Sue and her team, with ultimate responsibility for the Foundation (legal and fiduciary) in the hands of the WMF Board of Trustees. The board concerns itself with Foundation-level and global questions, not with project-level issues. However, of course there are global questions that affect all of the projects. In practice the board only makes official statements about a limited number of things; you can see the resolutions that the board has issued here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Resolutions. best, phoebe (trustee 2010-2012) _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
