Although, on his user page he says that the mailing list is the place to discuss the nature of Wikipedia. That seems a bit strange to me though - I am quite sure that the volume of discussion about the nature of Wikipedia in talk pages and meta pages vastly outweighs the discussions on the mailing lists, and has a greater influence of people's behavior, and wiki-policy.
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Brian Brian.Mingus@colorado.edu wrote:
I believe the point that Jimbo is making (i will certainly be corrected if wrong :-) is that there is no externally imposed hierarchy. The wiki really did start as a tabula rasa, and all discussions of its hierarchy can be found in its pages.
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:23 PM, James Rigg jamesrigg1974@googlemail.comwrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Jimmy Wales jwales@wikia-inc.com wrote:
James Rigg wrote:
Thanks geni.
So, to put it crudely, the talk of full transparency and lack of hierarchy is now viewed as just naive idealism that existed at the start of the project, and which has now been abandoned?
No, not at all.
But there isn't full transparency, and there is a hierarchy.
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