[Foundation-l] The High Priests of Wikipedia

[Amory Meltzer]

Good?

"Though the Wikipedia has more than 12 million registered users, its
inner core consists of roughly 1,700 administrators who possess the
ability to reject edits, lock down pages from further editing, and
deem entire entries unworthy. But the real power lies in the
Wikipedian equivalent of the College of Cardinals -- some 200 to 300
super-administrators who may banish transgressors for life and chart
the wiki's strategy and direction..."

With the exception of the first two numbers, nothing there is wholly
or remotely true.

~A



On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 04:20, Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com> wrote:
> From [1]:
>
> "For internecine intrigue and power struggles, the Wikipedia makes the
> Vatican look like a coffee clatch. This seemingly informal
> encyclopedia that anyone can edit is in fact a wiki-ocracy where
> self-anointed experts vie for control."
>
> Some numbers are not quite correct, but this is good! Lame people
> don't know everything about us!
>
> [1] - http://infoworld.com/d/adventures-in-it/faith-in-numbers-six-more-tech-cults-846?page=0,2
>
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