[WikiEN-l] Re: Lir and his clones

Daniel Ehrenberg littledanehren at yahoo.com
Wed May 21 22:42:38 UTC 2003


> I used to think that Lir would change. I also used
> to
> believe in Santa Claus (acutally I never did, but
> you
> get my point). Lir will never change.
> 
> In all of the other wikis (except for the ones
> modeled
> after us), there is no "supreme-dictator-for-life"
> (as
> you put it, perhaps humorsly, in a previous post).
> Most other wikis despise that we have one person
> running the whole thing. I don't think we should
> keep
> doing your unpopular decisions just because you own
> the servers. When you created Wikipedia, you also
> gave
> up control of it. We are a community, not governed
> by
> one person, but by everyone. On many of the About,
> FAQ, and similar pages, you state that Wikipedia is
> an
> anarchy, but that really is not true. As long as you
> unilaterally make decisions like this, wikipedia
> will
> never be a true anarchy, always a dictatorship.
> --LittleDan

Sorry for my harsh wording

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