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could you explain what the difference between "B" and "KISS" is? MathewTownsend (talk) 16:36, 19 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
"B" involves more explicit structure of the governing body for the Council: both an executive of paid staff and an elected legislative Council who hires and directs them. The recent draft charter that is proposed combines parts of both proposals, avoiding some of the complexity of the original "B" model but expanding on the concept of an elaborate bureaucracy, with separate [paid] executive, [volunteer, elected] legislative, and [volunteer, appointed] judicial groups. – SJ + 11:58, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Creating a Chapters Council seems to be making an extra layer of bureaucracy we do not need. Chapters are a vehicle we use for interacting with the rest of organised society and is a small sideshow to all the single persons contributing to Wikipedia, most of our contributors would not notice if the local chapter closed down. So no need to make this bigger than it is. Ulflarsen (talk) 13:40, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
One of the main purposes of chapters are to provide a real legal entity with which other organizations can partner. The other is to provide tax benefits to the citizens of the country in which they reside. Agree with the desire to keep bureaucracy to a minimum.--Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 18:32, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

FWIW, another legacy of the late Ben Yates was helping to found the Wikipedia:Article Rescue Squadron, which ironically is the subject of another Signpost article. -- llywrch (talk) 19:51, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

That is ironic. MathewTownsend (talk) 20:13, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

As there was no In the news section in this Signpost, thought I'd mention this here in case anyone missed it and is interested to listen again: Jimmy Wales was the subject of a BBC Radio 4 'Profile' programme on Sunday: [1]. 82.32.238.139 (talk) 22:22, 20 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]