[WikiEN-l] Your comments on wikien-l regarding adminship

[Timwi]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> Wikipedia is not an experiment - the scientific method does not apply.

This is just plain wrong.

It is true that Wikipedia is not an experiment in a lot of things (incl. 
online democracy, anarchy, etc.), but Wikipedia *is* and has always been 
an experiment to create an encyclopedia using a wiki. A lot of things 
have changed in Wikipedia because people realised at some point that 
certain aspects didn't work very well (e.g. the CamcelCase convention 
was removed because people eventually realised that having articles 
titled "DemocracY" and "TelephonE" is stupid). There is no reason to 
believe that Wikipedia has now reached a perfect state and requires no 
further changes to the way it works.

Timwi