On 21/08/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
I forget who said it (probably David Gerard), but it's incredibly true: Wikipedia doesn't scale.
Wasn't me, that I recall ...
"Consensus" works when you're confident that everyone who's involved Has A Clue. When you've got a thousand wolves in sheep's clothing, and you can't tell who is which (because there are so bloody many of them! ever tried counting sheep?), that's when "consensus" falls flat on its face.
It fails when you can no longer assume everyone isn't stupid.
- d.