[WikiEN-l] Requirements for Adminship

[Stan Shebs]

Marc Riddell wrote:
> on 2/19/07 4:50 PM, Jossi Fresco at jossifresco at mac.com wrote:
>
>   
>> I speak of a culture that has
>> produced the most amazing results in the history of on-line
>> collaboration.
>>     
>
> Is the same culture that began WP the same one in place today?
>   
I just crossed my four-year anniversary, and while I can't speak to the 
beginning, the culture hasn't really changed much in my time here. The 
biggest change for me is the larger scale; once upon a time I "knew" 
most of the admins and active editors, in the sense that I had read 
their work and had some sense of who they were. Now I can see a mention 
of somebody, wonder "who is that?", and see a history of 20K+ edits in 
areas I didn't even know existed. So I think the culture could change 
simply by different groups, unaware of each other, devolving into 
disparate subcultures.

The webcomics thing is a case in point. From my "old-school" POV :-) , I 
tend to regard webcomics as intrinsically non-notable, and yet there is 
another part of the WP community that is intensely focussed on writing 
about webcomics, defining inclusion criteria, etc. On the flip side, 
though, when I look at how they actually go about their work, it seems 
very much like things we did on the early days of the ships project, 
back in 2003. So I think that as long as we have some ongoing 
cross-pollination between different specializations, that we can keep 
things from splintering too much.

Stan