[WikiEN-l] Scott McCloud on Wikipedia

[David Gerard]

On 28/02/07, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86 at comcast.net> wrote:
> on 2/26/07 10:14 PM, John Lee at johnleemk at gmail.com wrote:

> > At least we can reduce the possible points of failure,
> > without resorting to Jimbo.

> As far as the overall culture of the Wikipedia Community is concerned,
> nothing is going to change until a recognition that it needs to change - and
> a mandate to fix it - comes from the top. Without that it is all merely
> theory to be debated.


Mandates from the top sometimes don't work that well in practice. The
community has told Jimbo to get knotted before ...

These are volunteers. Volunteer motivation is a tricky one. Best thing
to do is to think in terms of herding cats - you need to work out the
local equivalent of tuna.


- d.