User:MBisanz/Presentation


 * 2001-2002 - Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger (then editor in chief) under Bomis.
 * 2001 - Sanger's "I need to be granted fairly broad authority by the community—by you, dear reader—if I am going to do my job effectively. Until fairly recently, I was granted such authority by Wikipedians. I was indeed not infrequently called to justify decisions I made, but not constantly and nearly always respectfully and helpfully. This place in the community did not make me an all-powerful editor who must be obeyed on pain of ousting; but it did make me a leader. That’s what I want, again. This is my job." was rejected by the community.
 * In 2002 IP cites Brion VIBBER, Lee Daniel Crocker, Tim Shell, Larry_Sanger, Koyaanis Qatsi appear to be the de facto editorial/censor board. In the following exchange the anon noted "Presumably some political process for deciding this must evolve... "electing sherrifs" or whatever..."
 * In 2003 RFA moves from the ML to WP:RFA, standards quickly increase. WMF created to replace Bomis ownership.
 * Admins weren't always able to block users; only devs could do that at first. In September 2003, admins were given the ability to block registered accounts.
 * In 2004 Arbcom and Medcom created by Jimbo Wales. The bureaucrat usergroup was created for promoting users to adminship; a process for requesting bureaucratship was started. Previously only developers could promote users to adminship.  June 2004 to September 2006, the WMF Board of Trustees is 60% comprised of Wikia, Inc. employees (or, 80% Wikia or Bomis employees). The Form 990's submitted to the U.S. government state that there are no business relationships between any of the trustees.
 * 2005 - David Gerard adds text about community bans to the banning policy, community bans are used more often
 * The "wiki process" and discussion with other editors as the final decision-making mechanism for all content.
 * Wikipedia has no editorial board.
 * Soft v. Hard control (charisma v. userrights)
 * Official v. Unofficial control (Elected v. Unelected)
 * Local v. Wiki-wide (WPPJ/XAC v. XComs/XfAs)
 * Scaling of decision making (PROD creation, Mainpage redesign, Rollback, Flagged Revs).
 * Groups like ArbCab, MedCab, Justice Court, Esperanza, Concordia, etc.
 * Roles like Directors, Coordinators.
 * Things like Account Creator on Toolserver, IRC-ops, BAG, OTRS.
 * Processes like RFC, 3O, PR.
 * Abandoned ideas like Association of Member's Advocates, Quick-polls, Ombudsman.
 * Fiat matters like OFFICE, JIMBO, WMF.
 * Interwiki matters like SUL, Stewards, Ombudsman Meta, and Commons.