[WikiEN-l] The Nature of a Wiki, was agenda promotion, was: Re: Original Research versus Point of View

[Fred Bauder]

Wikipedia can be considered an exercise in participatory democracy engaged
in the task of creating an encyclopedia. Its purpose is not to refine and
perfect particatory demococracy, but wiki software is premised on wide and
more or less equal participation by the publics.

One may change that premise, but one should know that is what you are
discussing doing.

Fred

> From: Robert Dodier <robert_dodier at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 14:24:12 -0800 (PST)
> To: slimvirgin at gmail.com, English Wikipedia <wikien-l at Wikipedia.org>
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] agenda promotion, was: Re: Original Research versus Point
> of View
> 
> Since Wikipedia isn't an experiment in participatory democracy,
> there shouldn't be any problem in modifying the "anyone can
> edit anytime" policy, since it is not always serving the larger goal
> of creating an encyclopedia. My own proposal is that contentious
> pages (and only those) be controlled by editorial boards staffed
> by demonstrably boring bureaucrats. I'm sure there are a
> multitude of proposals -- I'd certainly like to hear about them.
> 
> For what it's worth,
> Robert Dodier