----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerard Meijssen" gerard.meijssen@gmail.com To: fredbaud@fairpoint.net; "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List" foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:35 PM Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example
[...] Wikipedia is one of the biggest websites in the world. Obviously that is not how the reality of our success is measured.
Of course not. The reality of its success would be: being a comprehensive and reliable reference source. It is not, yet.
Peter
on 9/26/10 7:09 AM, Fred Bauder at fredbaud@fairpoint.net wrote:
When you're a big success it is very hard to continue to take the necessary actions to achieve genuine greatness. The usual response to suggestions of change is to circle the wagons.
Yes. And a part of true greatness is the willingness, and the limitless ability, to innovate and to evolve.
Three quotes come to my mind regarding this:
* - "If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living." -- Gail Sheehy
* - "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them." - Albert Einstein
And, to describe what the Project did in the beginning:
* - "Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Marc