[Foundation-l] The High Priests of Wikipedia

[Milos Rancic]

On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Amory Meltzer <amorymeltzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

It is good that they don't know our secrets!

(BTW, both article writer and I intended to be funny.)