All, and editors in particular, I would be interested in what Citizens have to say about this:
http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1157.0.html I learned this morning that one topic discussed at the 2007 "Wikimania" was how to deal with Wikipedia's burgeoning bureaucracy. This is, essentially, a problem of "scaling the community," or how to keep governance sane and simple in the light of expansion. Of course, we could always stay small, but I now seriously doubt this. I think we're going to see our activity double within the next six months, and increase even more after that. So I am throwing an idea out there just for us to kick around. Let me begin with a definite (albeit vague) proposal, not because I want to get behind this proposal (it's just what comes to mind now), but because I think it might help us focus our thoughts. I think that this could turn out to be one of the most important problems for us to solve, so--please think creatively! We could reconceive of Citizendium as a federalized project, with virtually all day-to-day editorial decisions and oversight, of the sort I now do, being made at the workgroup level (with leadership from the workgroup's Chief Editor). As each workgroup kicks off as an independent unit, it gains its own Constabulary, and its other apparatus, such as its homepage and mailing list, become much more heavily used. Moreover, each workgroup gains its own advisory committee, if for no other reason than to be attractive to experts within the field. Read on, and reply, at: http://forum.citizendium.org/index.php/topic,1157.0.html Policy wonks encouraged to reply. :-) --Larry _______________________________________________ Citizendium-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.purdue.edu/mailman/listinfo/citizendium-l
