[WikiEN-l] Transition to WikiDemocracy

[The Cunctator]

On 3/9/04 2:28 PM, "Poor, Edmund W" <Edmund.W.Poor at abc.com> wrote:

> This thing has really gotten out of hand.
> 
> Wikipedia has grown so large that it is no longer possible to rely on
> so-called soft security.
> 
> A small community like Ward's Wiki (which is  chiefly about software
> development) or MeatBall (which is about creating online communities)
> which has a HIGH RATIO of readers to writers, can rely on soft security.
> Every change is read by dozens of Recent Changes junkies.
> 
> The days when a single admin (like Maveric in his heyday) could be "on
> duty" for several hours at a time and single-handedly hold back the tide
> of vandalism -- well these days are forever gone, my friends.
> 
> Sorry, but we are the victims of our own success. And it takes the full
> attention of a dozen admins to counter one determined troublemaker.

Time to don the jackboots, my friends. When will we learn that violence
begets violence?