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127: 680:. Wales has not invoked this power often, and his most recent for-cause removals of admin rights, in 2008, provoked varying amounts of controversy. The question of whether the English Knowledge (XXG) community could revoke advanced permissions from User:Jimbo Wales arose during a Request for Arbitration in April 2023; Wales voluntarily arranged to have his advanced permissions removed by WMF staff, and to have both the Global Founder and English Knowledge (XXG) Founder group permissions limited. 46: 314:. In April 2023, these global permissions were again reduced at Jimmy Wales's request. Jimmy Wales also agreed to the removal of his English Knowledge (XXG) administrator, CheckUser and Oversight permissions; and to modify the local Founder permission so that it was no longer able to grant permissions to himself or other users. 260:, which he uses as a noticeboard to publish his occasional "decrees" or announcements and where he facilitates discussion on all sorts of Wikimedia projects matters that he welcomes (from the broadest to the most specific; relating to Wikipedias in all languages, Wikimedia, Commons etc.); the latter often include 1150: 592:
by Wales in December 2003, at the same time as the original Arbitrators were selected. All new mediator nominations were subject to the final approval of Wales, although he rarely commented on nominations and has never overturned a consensus of the Committee. Jimbo held a subscription to the private
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and the community. Successively, his direct involvement in the running of the site decreased considerably. His role since May 2023 is essentially as a respected senior community member and representative, a source of institutional knowledge, and the holder of the
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its official mailing list to "sitting arbitrators, the designated mailing list coordinator, and Jimbo Wales"; the position of designated mailing list coordinator was subsequently discarded, making Wales the only non-arbitrator privy to the list.
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that he no longer needed to appoint members of the Arbitration Committee and that the established community process is sufficient for their election. Appeals from committee decisions to Wales ended in May 2023, following
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In order to prevent any further controversy on the immediate question, though, I have personally removed the line in question from the policy and assert affirmatively that I do not have the right to ban users
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were originally appointed by Wales, and he at one time asserted the right to overrule or even dissolve the Committee. When it was founded in 2004, he said that he expected to exercise this right
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community, due to the central and vital stake he had in its founding. This has in the past included a number of roles in the community's governance, including originally having sole authority to
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prior to the referendum that he viewed his reserve powers as tied to his appellate role, and he did not argue during or after the referendum that these powers would survive a loss of that role.
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In the event that the ArbCom makes a ruling against me, overturning any decision I have made in my traditional capacity within Knowledge (XXG), the ArbCom's decision shall be final.
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Wales continued to assert implied reserve powers over the Arbitration Committee, including the hypothetical power to disband it. In December 2013, arbitrator-elect
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as policy, with the edit summary "Do not revert policy tag except on the explicit approval of me and/or the Wikimedia Foundation," seen as an invocation of
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to exercise his reserve powers over ArbCom for the first time ever and call a special election to reconfirm 28bytes to his post. 28bytes, however,
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of current or future discussions on the English Knowledge (XXG) or elsewhere to solicit more participation from the talk page's followers.
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the offer, and no election was held. As a result, no determination was made as to whether Wales had the power to call a special election.
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in November 2009, reversing his own unilateral action from the project's early years, was less controversial, as Jasonr had only 4 edits.
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software feature to be activated. Wales solicited community input on this issue but did not formally submit the request to the board.
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from the editing community over the initiative led to its abandonment and the resignation of the arbitrator primarily responsible.
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See past Administrators' Noticeboard discussions concerning Wales's removal of administrator privileges from individuals: the
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user groups in recognition of his status; at his request, neither group confers any advanced rights.
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that whether or not FT2 was to be replaced was a decision for Wales. That same month, the Committee
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When he was an administrator on the English Knowledge (XXG), Wales had the technical ability to
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Until April 2023, Wales had the technical ability, through the unique permissions flag of "
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Here, let me by decree in this very instant make the following binding pledge upon myself:
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admin. Citing 28bytes's overwhelming support in the just-concluded election, Wales
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articles, Wales wrote an open letter to the Wikimedia Foundation, calling for the
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editors from the site. Wales's various powers were assumed over time by the
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amending arbitration policy to remove a reference to such appeals. Wales
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he deleted files at Wikimedia Commons without seeking consensus
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The English Knowledge (XXG) community ratified a rewritten
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Knowledge (XXG):Requests for comment/Arbitration Committee
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