[WikiEN-l] Pedantry on privileges

[Carcharoth]

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 12:10 AM, Gregory Maxwell <gmaxwell at gmail.com> wrote:

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> ISTM that Enwp users are  quite comfortable with Jimmy playing
> an important role as he has traditionally

The changes over time in the role Jimmy plays on en-wikipedia is an
interesting question. There is far more material and actions and
actual rulings by ArbCom to support journalists or authors writing
about that if they took the time to do the research properly (though
some aspects are almost certainly only accessible to insiders and to
an official biographer if Jimmy ever goes that route).

The one thing that flags up Jimmy's role on en-wiki more than anything
else is the amount of traffic his talk page gets, and the number of
people watching his talk page. There is also his work relating to
off-wiki structures such as the WMF and the en-wiki ArbCom, but it
becomes difficult to talk authoritatively about that without breaching
confidences.

The page WP:JIMBO does cover some of this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Role_of_Jimmy_Wales

Carcharoth