On 6/27/07, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Marc Riddell wrote:
on 6/27/07 12:33 PM, Stan Shebs at stanshebs@earthlink.net wrote:
Marc Riddell wrote:
Or do you see anything that needs to be done that is not done today?
Full, active, day-to-day oversight of the Project.
Oh, I see - you mean somebody like Larry Sanger! :-)
That's way before before my time here. But from the history I have read,
no
- not someone like him.
Larry Sanger was important in his own time. I see his job as having been getting something up and running out of nothing. That kind of leader would not work here any more. Too many highly experienced editors would resist it.
See http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia for a good early history of Wikipedia and Larry Sanger's role.