On 3/23/07, Daniel R. Tobias dan@tobias.name wrote:
Sanger has managed to implement editing power over the minds of his contributors? Neat! Now we ought to work on creating a similar, but more democratic, capability for *our* site, so it can be "Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia whose Editors' Minds Anyone can Change!"
Heh!
The Tinfinger guy has a point, though; it's not good for a project for its leader to be so obsessed with comparisons to another project, or indeed its contributors to be (if they actually care as much as Larry Sanger thinks they do.)
I'm not sure how much Larry Sanger realises how this demeans his project by making it look like simply a sour-grapes attempt to show Wikipedia, and Jimmy, that he was the one with the right ideas all along.
-Matt