On 7/3/05, JAY JG jayjg@hotmail.com wrote:
Wikipedia is about creating an encyclopedia, not promulgating an ideology.
I agree with your point about not focusing on admins, although I think that end is best served by making many people admins as it dillutes any unintended power of adminship.
I wanted to make a comment specifically to what I quoted above. Please pardon me for taking you out of context.
There were already a number of good encyclopedias before Wikipedia came about. You can not separate Wikipedia the encyclopedia from Wikipedia the ideology. I do not think this is a bad idea.
Even as a non-editor you can not be completely ignorant of the Wikipedia ideology if you are to effectively use our resources, since the results of vandalism and POV pushers will always end up visible once in a while and because the inner workings of the project are so useful by themselves (it's very handy to have some ability to ask questions of the person who wrote the text you are reading).