On 2/28/07, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
on 2/28/07 8:39 AM, John Lee at johnleemk@gmail.com wrote:
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.
John,
I just don't see how a group can lead - without a group leader.
It doesn't have to be leader-singular in the appointive sense. People who are leaders in some sense just rise to the top; participation in WP:AN, WP:ANI, these mailing lists, policy discussions at the Village Pump, etc.
A rough consensus democracy can evolve among such leaders if they play nicely together and feel empowered to do things. Someone will probably end up as more equal than the rest, but that doesn't have to be a formal executive power position, it can be consensus-leader soft power.
This is not a necessary or natural evolution of empowered leader groups, though. Some are dysfunctional or just don't rise to that level of leadership due to personal or organizational issues.