[Foundation-l] transparency or translucency?

[David Gerard]

2009/1/10 James Rigg <jamesrigg1974 at googlemail.com>:

> I'm not questioning here whether or not there are good reasons for
> sometimes being non-transparent and hierarchical, I'm just saying that
> it's interesting that, contrary to its founding ideals, and probably
> also to how many people think, or like to think, Wikipedia is run, it
> is not run in a fully transparent and non-hierarchical way.


Tens of thousands of active editors a month. That such a thing could
run without bureaucracy defies rational thought.

Also, you can't actually stop people talking amongst themselves. See
"Tyranny of Structurelessness."


- d.