Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
Jimbo Wales wrote:
The ironic beauty of this is that John calls it a 'socialist nirvana' and laments the 'dead ends' he got when he tried to research the founder of the site (I can only assume he meant me).
From my viewpoint, it is a fine piece of an anarcho-socialist nirvana: everyone contributes what they want and are able to, and everyone shares the resulting benefits.
Yes, I don't see anything particularly right-wing about Wikimedia. To be sure, it fits in with right-Libertarian philosophy just fine; since Jimbo, as owner of the infrastructure, chooses to let us use it, and Wikimedia, although a collective institution, is entirely voluntary. That's the great thing about /libertarianism/ of any stripe, as opposed to the authoritarianism of (say) the GWBush administration; alternative models can fit into the framework if people want them.
-- Toby