> How about this for starters for a leadership council. 5 members, > serving staggered 3 year terms, and possibly subject to recall, with > the following duties: > - To engage members of the community in open and frank discussions > about policy, technical, and content/style issues. > - To participate in discussions of broad-reaching issues, lending > moderation and reminding the community of it's core responsibility and > values. > - To rule on the presence or absence of consensus where it is contested. > - To occasionally impose decisions based on the advice of the > community where the consensus process cannot produce a decision, and > where the decision would reflect both a majority viewpoint and the > long-term interests of the project. > - To occasionally call referendums on technical and policy matters > after sufficient discussion has taken place, and where the wishes of > the community are not clear. > - To use the site notice and watchlist notice functions to call > attention to broad-reaching policy and technical discussions requiring > more community input. > - To impose temporary policy decisions where timeliness is critical > due to potential for disruption to the community or gross violation of > our core values. > > The community would retain the ability to govern through consensus, > and would further have the ability to call referendums on any decision > imposed by the council. Overturning a council decision would be by > simple majority, so that the council would lack the ability to go > completely against the wishes of the community. > > > Someone take this and keep editing please :)
Later with elaboration, but very very promising initiative. Fred _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
