[WikiEN-l] Please change your passwords. > Leadership

[Zoney]

On 12/05/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Sorry to sound cynical, but I really think a lot of people are blind to
> how
> > despotic and anarchic things really are on Wikipedia. It's a wonder
> anyone
> > stays involved with Wikipedia for long - obviously we must attract a lot
> of
> > strong-willed and determined individuals as editors.
>
> Can you be both despotic and anarchic? Are they not mutually exclusive?
>
>
Amazingly, on Wikipedia they aren't. Various areas are not only one or the
other, but seem to switch between the two depending on whether a group of
people or an individual have the upper hand there, or a lot of people are
trying to get the upper hand on the others.

Zoney

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