[WikiEN-l] Why are veterans so militant of late; The Future. (was Bus Uncle)

[The Cunctator]

On 6/27/07, Ray Saintonge <saintonge at telus.net> wrote:
>
> Marc Riddell wrote:
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> >on 6/27/07 12:33 PM, Stan Shebs at stanshebs at earthlink.net wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Marc Riddell wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>>>Or do you see anything that needs to be done that is not done today?
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>Full, active, day-to-day oversight of the Project.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>Oh, I see - you mean somebody like Larry Sanger! :-)
> >>
> >>
> >That's way before before my time here. But from the history I have read,
> no
> >- not someone like him.
> >
> Larry Sanger was important in his own time.  I see his job as having
> been getting something up and running out of nothing.  That kind of
> leader would not work here any more.  Too many highly experienced
> editors would resist it.


See http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia for a good early history
of Wikipedia and Larry Sanger's role.