I've replied to Ian volunteering to be interviewed, as no one else has
expressed an interest.
I'll let you know what he comes back with - sounds interesting!
On Jun 25, 5:56 pm, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dal...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2009/6/25 geni <geni...(a)gmail.com>om>:
2009/6/25 Thomas Dalton
<thomas.dal...(a)gmail.com>om>:
> 2009/6/25 Michael Peel <em...(a)mikepeel.net>et>:
>>> From: Ian Hawkins <ian.hawk...(a)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.
Yes, I agree. We should let him know that the answer isn't going to be
anything simple.
(If anyone is interested in this topic, there is a discussion on the
future governance of Wikipedia going on here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Giano/The_future
The discussion is focuses around deciding if we need to have a more
formal discussion about the issues. [Don't be frightened away by the
fact that it is in Giano's userspace, it's being held with an amazing
amount of maturity and courtesy by all parties.])
_______________________________________________
Wikimedia UK mailing list
wikimediau...@wikimedia.orghttp://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l
WMUK:http://uk.wikimedia.org