On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 17:59, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
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
That's not true. Lir has changed and will continue to do so. Not
necessarily for the better, but he's a person, not a mythological
creature.
There are plenty of non-anarchistic wikis. MeatballWiki is ruled with a
velvet glove by Sunir Shah. Jimbo has made it plenty clear where the
limits of anarchy lie.
You're off base here.
If you're really concerned, then agitate for forking. I wouldn't bother,
and there are plenty of policies and decisions that I disagree with.
Finally, an anarchy is not governed by everyone--it's governed by noone.
You're thinking of a (true) democracy.