The Cunctator schreef:
See http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia for a good early history of Wikipedia and Larry Sanger's role.
The impression I got from that article is that Larry Sanger left, because he felt he wasn't supported in his fight to keep Wikipedia running; because there were not enough rules to ban vandals and other troublesome editors.
It may be relevant for our discussion about the "structure" of Wikipedia to see Larry's ideas for a workable environment to write an encyclopedia: https://lists.purdue.edu/pipermail/citizendium-l/2007-June/000994.html, "Towards CZ 2.0".
Marc (Riddell), does that mail from Larry describe more or less what you mean by the "structure" that is necessary for Wikipedia? If so, you now have a nice /in vivo/ experiment.
Eugene
Eugene,
It occurred to me that you may be missing an important point here. I am not proposing a structure for the Wikipedia Project. Rather, I am proposing that there be day-to-day leadership that would oversee one.
Marc