----- 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
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.
Fred