[WikiEN-l] Quitting Wikipedia and wanted you to know why.

[Guy Chapman aka JzG]

On Fri, 06 Oct 2006 23:31:26 +0930, "Alphax \(Wikipedia email\)"
<alphasigmax at gmail.com> wrote:

>There's still the very slight matter of why Oversight was invented...

When there were a hundred admins they all knew and trusted each other.
That model doesn't scale.  When you have a thousand admins, *someone*
has to take a watching brief.  The stakes are much higher now, with
Wikipedia a prime target for every POV-pusher on the planet.

Guy (JzG)
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