On 12/13/06, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)comcast.net> wrote:
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?
Essentially there's always been a Wikipedia crowd; by that I mean decisions
have never been terribly top-down. Larry Sanger was the master herder of the
early decision-making.
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia unfortunately lacks a full
history (a good project for the Foundation to tackle) but you can see a
relatively well-formed set of early policies.
See also
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_commentary
In November Sanger started segregating policy suggestions he liked from
those he didn't to create
meta.wikipedia.com (well, it's more complicated
than that, but that was part of the impetus).
This is also a good early page:
http://nostalgia.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia/Our_Replies_to_Our_Critics
Click around and learn more.
Marc
From: "David Gerard"
<dgerard(a)gmail.com>
Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l(a)Wikipedia.org>
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 18:56:09 +0000
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org>
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Categories (was: Hello)
On 13/12/06, Marc Riddell <michaeldavid86(a)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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