2009/1/10 James Rigg jamesrigg1974@googlemail.com:
I'm not questioning here whether or not there are good reasons for sometimes being non-transparent and hierarchical, I'm just saying that it's interesting that, contrary to its founding ideals, and probably also to how many people think, or like to think, Wikipedia is run, it is not run in a fully transparent and non-hierarchical way.
Tens of thousands of active editors a month. That such a thing could run without bureaucracy defies rational thought.
Also, you can't actually stop people talking amongst themselves. See "Tyranny of Structurelessness."
- d.