On 3/20/07, stevertigo stvrtg@gmail.com wrote:
Its important to remember that Wikipedia is Jimbo's website. It doesnt matter if he is right or wrong on any particular issue. What matters is that we follow his leadership and do so promptly, simply because the project would likely fall to pieces without him.
Who pays for the servers? And writes all of the new content? And maintains the site's functionality?
On 3/20/07, William Pietri william@scissor.com wrote:
I think it's his website mostly in the sense that the Linux kernel is Linus's. It's really everybody's kernel, but everybody follows Linus's lead because he leads pretty well.
Exactly.
Yeah, it's a dictatorship, but just because we allow it to be one. It's also a democracy, an anarchy, a meritocracy, a technocracy, etc. Ultimately, it's our project.
If Jimbo or the board decide to decree new policies that a large number of us disagree with, we'll just take our contributions and donations elsewhere, and leave en.wikipedia to the wolves.