[WikiEN-l] ArbCom Legislation

[David Gerard]

2008/6/24 Anthony <wikimail at inbox.org>:
> On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Kurt Maxwell Weber <kmw at armory.com> wrote:
>> On Monday 23 June 2008 08:58, Wily D wrote:

>>> It was "royal assented" by Jimbo, but with
>>> him effectively removed from his position of arbitrary authority these
>>> days, I wonder if the community could vote to disband ArbCom.

>> It doesn't need to, since the Arbitrary Committee doesn't legitimately exist
>> in the first place.  It doesn't need to be disbanded; everyone just needs to
>> start ignoring it.

> If the project community consisted solely of individuals like you and
> me that might work, Kurt.  But in practice society isn't ready for
> anarchy, even on the Internet.  If the ArbCom is to lose its power it
> will need to be replaced with something else.
> Like it or not, Wikipedia actually makes a good case study for why
> anarchy doesn't work.


May I link yet again to "The Tyranny Of Structurelessness", about how
hierarchies will form, and you can either account for this or have
them bite you on the backside:

http://www.jofreeman.com/joreen/tyranny.htm

(this time linked from the author's own site!)


- d.