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

[Marc Riddell]

> On 13/05/07, Zoney <zoney.ie at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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.
> 
> on 5/13/07 1:13 PM, David Gerard at dgerard at gmail.com wrote:

> A question: is Wikipedia the first online community you've been deeply
> involved in?
> 
> (Not that this is a bad thing on your part, I'm just asking. I suspect
> that this being the case for a lot of people is a lot of the
> perception of the problem. I just find myself repeatedly surprised at
> people talking about Wikipedia's problems as if they're novel in any
> way.)
> 
David,

Do you believe the problems outlined in this and other posts exist in WP?

Whether WP is a person's first or fiftieth online community to be involved
in, if you do believe the problems exist, how do your comments work toward
resolving them?

Marc