[Foundation-l] Top 10 Wikipedias

Ray Saintonge saintonge at telus.net
Tue Jul 8 17:09:37 UTC 2008


Anthony wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 10:10 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
>> Anthony wrote:
>>     
>>> On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 3:04 AM, Florence Devouard <Anthere9 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>       
>>>>  In the past, on the projects, certain decisions
>>>> were taken by the entire communities. Then, as the communities grew,
>>>> some people realised that some degree of delegation was necessary. And
>>>> that's why for example, the arbitration committees were created.
>>>>         
>>> Replace "the entire communities" with "Jimmy Wales" and that last
>>> sentence is correct.
>>>       
>> On the english wikipedia, that's correct. Elsewhere, not... :-)
>>
>>     
> Ah, good point, I misread you.
>
>   
You could both be right ... when you consider that in the most ancient 
days the English Wikipedia was the only game in town. ;-)

Ec



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