On Wed, 2003-05-21 at 17:59, Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
I used to think that Lir would change. I also used to believe in Santa Claus (acutally I never did, but you get my point). Lir will never change.
In all of the other wikis (except for the ones modeled after us), there is no "supreme-dictator-for-life" (as you put it, perhaps humorsly, in a previous post). Most other wikis despise that we have one person running the whole thing. I don't think we should keep doing your unpopular decisions just because you own the servers. When you created Wikipedia, you also gave up control of it. We are a community, not governed by one person, but by everyone. On many of the About, FAQ, and similar pages, you state that Wikipedia is an anarchy, but that really is not true. As long as you unilaterally make decisions like this, wikipedia will never be a true anarchy, always a dictatorship. --LittleDan
That's not true. Lir has changed and will continue to do so. Not necessarily for the better, but he's a person, not a mythological creature.
There are plenty of non-anarchistic wikis. MeatballWiki is ruled with a velvet glove by Sunir Shah. Jimbo has made it plenty clear where the limits of anarchy lie.
You're off base here.
If you're really concerned, then agitate for forking. I wouldn't bother, and there are plenty of policies and decisions that I disagree with.
Finally, an anarchy is not governed by everyone--it's governed by noone. You're thinking of a (true) democracy.