Daniel Mayer wrote:
That said, I do want to say that any
"dictatorial"
type of system is
inherently flawed and the results are only as good
as the leadership and
mediation skills of the current dictator (which
can
be anything between
benevolent to malevolent).
A malevolent dictator would never have had the
altruistic followers that
Jimbo has had here. In such circumstances the
'pedia would have had far
fewer articles over the same time.
The Romans started on the tract of a
dictatorial-type system back with
Augustus Caesar. Now Augustus was a great leader -
just like Jimbo - but the
system he created totally depended on the strength
of charactor of the
Emperor. So when a person with poor leadership
skills or morals takes over in
such a system then we have Neros and Caligulas.
I thought of a Roman emperor comparison when i was
composing my previous
response to this, specifically Marcus Aurelius.
We /do/ plan on changing the system as part of the
process of setting up the
Wikimedia Foundation, BTW, so there is nothing to
be angry about.
My concern and support about the much
bruited
foundation has not been
based on the actions of our present dictator, but on
insuring long term
continuity that would protect the project and make
it self-sustaining
far into the future.
Ec
So you think that wikipedia will slowly die out if we
never make the Wikimedia foundation?
--LittleDan
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