On 3/20/07, stevertigo <stvrtg(a)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(a)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.