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

[Todd Allen]

David Gerard wrote:
> On 14/05/07, Zoney <zoney.ie at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> Wikipedia is not a discussion forum, MMORPG, fan club or indeed primarily a
>> community at all. It should not be run the same way as those, allowing the
>> same problems. More particularly, it should be "run", not expected to
>> magically "work". I think the latter is a rather flawed ideology, although
>> unfortunately it seems many on Wikipedia subscribe to it (e.g. "the more
>> people involved with an article the better it gets", "we keep getting more
>> people therefore the articles will get better"). We don't even have
>> consistent editorial standards as a result of this organisational strategy,
>> which seems to be some bizarre belief in a magical "evolution" of
>> management. I think the "Wikipedia:" pages put the lie to this working.
>>     
>
>
> Mmm. A lot of the problem is that communities emerge whether you want
> them to or not. This is the tyranny of structurelessness. You can't
> declare a corporate culture.
>
>
>   
>> Essentially, the "wiki" technology is fantastic for collaborative editing,
>> but I think people have got carried away with it and erroneously belief that
>> the evolution of content through such collaboration is a paradigm that can
>> be extended to the management of the project.
>>     
>
>
> So how to fix it? If I had a solution I'd be diving in head first. A
> solution that won't lead to lots of people getting up and leaving,
> i.e. making it effectively a different project starting from the same
> database?
>
> This would be easier if forking and remerging were more feasible.
>
>
> - d.
>
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Why isn't it? It's all GFDL, and any fork would have to remain GFDL.

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