[WikiEN-l] Requirements for Adminship

[Gwern Branwen]

Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> writes:

> Stan Shebs wrote:
>
>>Marc Riddell wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>on 2/19/07 4:50 PM, Jossi Fresco at jossifresco at mac.com wrote:
>>>    
>>>
>>>>I speak of a culture that has
>>>>produced the most amazing results in the history of on-line
>>>>collaboration.
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>Is the same culture that began WP the same one in place today?
>>>    
>>>
>>I just crossed my four-year anniversary, and while I can't speak to the 
>>beginning, the culture hasn't really changed much in my time here. 
>>
> I thought you were here longer than that.  I think the culture has 
> changed.  The Seigenthaler incident was a big turning point in that.  
> After that the rule bound control freaks seem to have become more 
> dominant.  We had to respond to Seigenthaler, but in the process we 
> ended up with a lot of unnecesarily restrictive procedures.
....

Definitely agreed. We can't even sensibly discuss restoring anon page
creation, despite the utter lack of evidence either way that it worked.

-- 
Gwern
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