Michael Snow wikipedia@earthlink.net writes:
Thanks for your bright words!
Wikimedia is bound to free content by the GFDL. The freedom is more important than the principle of democracy (which will be generally respected through the consensus process anyway, since so many of us believe in democratic government in some fashion).
I fully agree with you. That's the point - contents is protected by the GFDL, what might happen behind the scenes is interesting, but it is not that important. After all, democracy is a strong word and, sure, one must not put bad words on it, but in the end incarnations of democracy could be astonishing.
Democracy is good for political issues, not for writing an encyclopedia.