Risker has pinned the issue; what the English Wikipedia suffers from
is a lack of leadership. The global, decentralised, community self-managed nature of Wikipedia has allowed for many great things... but it has its drawbacks, among them the complete inability to enforce social norms.
Ok. How do we create effective leadership for en.wp and eventually, other projects with similar growing pains?
What role does the community and consensus process retain in that model?
Can we get the consensus process back to a usable tool even when applied at "project scale" (ie, in decisions that affect all of en.wp)?
-Steph