On Tue, 2002-10-01 at 09:32, Vicki Rosenzweig wrote:
At 02:21 AM 10/1/02 -0400, you wrote:
It is *crucial* to recognize that by comparison to the number of Wikipedians in the future, the collective number of participants on this mailing list is effectively equivalent to a single person. So policies that are hashed out on the mailing list right now are little better than ones done "unilaterally" or "by fiat".
No. It's open to anyone who wants to be here, and if people use informative subject lines, someone can choose to read only the policy-related messages.
Can you really not see the difference between something one person does, and something a few dozen discuss?
Of course I can. But can you see my point, too? Can you see how decisions made by a few dozen people is not much different from decisions made by one person, in comparison to a population of, say, one million, or even ten thousand?