2009/6/25 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
2009/6/25 Michael Peel email@mikepeel.net:
From: Ian Hawkins ian.hawkins@gmail.com It's rare to find anything other than top-down structures in business, banking, the media, education etc. I wondered if Wikipedia is a great example of a more open and democratic structure.
Controversial topic! Wikipedians can't generally agree on how democratic Wikipedia is currently or how democratic it should be in the future. Doing justice to the topic will probably take longer than the couple of minutes I expect he's after. Personally, I wouldn't want to step on that particular ants nest without doing justice to it, so I'm afraid I will decline.
Might be worth emailing him to point out that per policy wikipedia is not a democracy and see if he realises what he is getting into.