David,
I read it. A crowd can never come to a decision about anything; they can only make enough noise to call attention to the fact that a decision needs to be made. At some point, very early in its history, there was no Wikipedia crowd. How, and by whom, were the decisions made that evolved into what Wikipedia is now?
Marc
From: "David Gerard" dgerard@gmail.com Reply-To: English Wikipedia wikien-l@Wikipedia.org Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:56:09 +0000 To: "English Wikipedia" wikien-l@wikipedia.org Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Categories (was: Hello)
On 13/12/06, Marc Riddell michaeldavid86@comcast.net wrote:
I am not suggesting that a "small committee" (your term) fix the problems of Wikipedia - just one small part of it. And, if flexibility leads to chaos then it does more harm than good - and is ultimately destructive.
The trouble is that this trick never works. See [[WP:PRO]] for an explanation.
- d.
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