On 12/05/07, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)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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