On 8 May 2010 17:46, Gregory Maxwell gmaxwell@gmail.com wrote:
As far as "which capacity", I think Jimmy's own statements make this abundantly clear regardless of what the PR spin says: "I am fully willing to change the policies for adminship (including removing adminship in case of wheel warring on this issue).", "I am in constant communication with both the board and Sue Gardner about this issue", and "Some things are simply going to be non-negotiable."
I've been working on the RationalWiki article on the decline and all-but-collapse of Citizendium: http://en.citizendium.org/wiki/Citizendium - CZ now has less contributors or actitvity than *Conservapedia*. And a lot of that was due to hasty interventions from the founder. (Leading to this final last-ditch attempt to drum up interest by attacking Wikipedia.)
I doubt Wikimedia is going to collapse soon, it's a bit big. But this sort of thing drives away the community disproportionately.
- d.