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==board status== | ==board status== | ||
It was founded by [[Jimmy Wales]], on the [[Wikimedia Board of Trustee]]s as "member for life". As this demonstrates, Wikipedia has no [[independent board]] | It was founded by [[Jimmy Wales]], on the [[Wikimedia Board of Trustee]]s as "member for life". As this demonstrates, [[w:Wikipedia|Wikipedia]] has no [[independent board]]. Three of the five members have association with [[Bomis]] in the form of being employed by the corporation, ex-employee or owner, and only 2 of the five current board members are elected by the community. The other three positions are currently held by "permanent" board members. As long as this structure remains, Wales and his close associates will maintain a permanent majority, with control over all final decisions. [[w:Wikimedia|Wikimedia]] claims that they are in the proccess of revising this structure, and it will become more open very soon. | ||
==funding== | ==funding== | ||
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When Wales "chats" with other users they get a picture of how he | When Wales "chats" with other users they get a picture of how he | ||
tends to see things and usually "[[defer]]" to this person who they see | tends to see things and usually "[[defer]]" to this person who they see | ||
as | as an [[GodKing|awe-inspiring founder]]. Certain [[sycophant]]s skew | ||
issues towards the way the founder sees them. None of these are unusual: | issues towards the way the founder sees them. None of these are unusual: | ||
[[Group dynamics]] suggest that this cannot be avoided but staying concious about this kind of phemonemom helps to minimize the damage it does, the [[systemic bias]] it creates, [[groupthink]] reinforced. | [[Group dynamics]] suggest that this cannot be avoided but staying concious about this kind of phemonemom helps to minimize the damage it does, the [[systemic bias]] it creates, [[groupthink]] reinforced. | ||
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*Claims that Wikipedia's [[name space]] is [[EPOV]] and favours Wikipedia itself inherently, e.g. creating use of ISO language codes in [[mediawiki]] as if they are invocations of Wikipedia in that language, not simply references to "that page in that language". | *Claims that Wikipedia's [[name space]] is [[EPOV]] and favours Wikipedia itself inherently, e.g. creating use of ISO language codes in [[mediawiki]] as if they are invocations of Wikipedia in that language, not simply references to "that page in that language". | ||
For example [[Wikipedia:fr:Commerce | For example [[Wikipedia:fr:Commerce �uitable]] or [[w:fr:Commerce �uitable]] map incorrectly to the [[interwiki link standard]] name which is [[fr:Wikipedia:Commerce �uitable]]: | ||
::It is not up to the service to decide what languages to serve in, nor is it up to the service to decide how to carve up space within that language - that's up to the language itself. Not only that, but the name of the service is itself expressed in a language: Hawaiian and Greek, combined using English rules of [[proper noun]] formation. | ::It is not up to the service to decide what languages to serve in, nor is it up to the service to decide how to carve up space within that language - that's up to the language itself. Not only that, but the name of the service is itself expressed in a language: Hawaiian and Greek, combined using English rules of [[proper noun]] formation. | ||
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*[[Libel chill]] employed as a tactic to silence critics, including those who have raised simple legal issues re the [[GFDL]] and [[charitable status]], which any contributor or citizen has a right to do. | *[[Libel chill]] employed as a tactic to silence critics, including those who have raised simple legal issues re the [[GFDL]] and [[charitable status]], which any contributor or citizen has a right to do. | ||
''See [[link transit]] for various attempts to resolve this issue.'' | ''See [[link transit]] for various attempts to resolve this issue.'' [http://www.squidoo.com/safe-tanning-with-tanning-booth PC Pro School] | ||