[WikiEN-l] Scott McCloud on Wikipedia

[John Lee]

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


Well, kind of the idea of creating a new class of users involved with the
English WP was to create a new "top" so we wouldn't need to rely on the
mandate coming from Jimbo who, I think, is a bit isolated from the things
that go on in WP on a daily basis.

Johnleemk