[Foundation-l] System administrators ignoring community consensus

MZMcBride z at mzmcbride.com
Thu Sep 15 22:48:35 UTC 2011


http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ignoring_community_consensus

[quote]
Rarely, a community consensus will emerge for a particular wiki
configuration change that is technically feasible to implement, but is
rejected by the system administrators. Arguably this is a demonstration of a
technocracy. This page serves to document these instances.
[/quote]

If anyone knows of any other bugs/requests, please feel free to list them.
As the page notes, these rejections are rare, but in my opinion they offer a
fascinating look into the "Wikipedia power structure."[1]

MZMcBride

[1] http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_power_structure






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