-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 07/06/2010 20:32, Aryeh Gregor wrote: > On Sun, Jun 6, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Mark Williamson <node...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Aryeh, I was under the (apparently mistaken?) impression that at >> Wikipedia, the community makes the decisions > > Not exactly. If the community actually made decisions, Wikipedia > would be a direct democracy, and it's not. The community does have a > large say in decisions, but it doesn't make them, in the end. > Particularly not on technical issues, which have always been > controlled by a much smaller group.
Ah! That's exactly what I was wondering from the beginning. Thank you for clarifying this point. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJMDYzBAAoJEHCAuDvx9Z6L1nQH/0ZYkshwjTffjzBHV/EyXgIF qx9iMH9bD1b2tLMIg5k5tKi0ZmqoH1ReP6Up6LKH+xQZ+blXOoKao/15U0M4UNJW PT58E471B52BH40HkPl4ZHnErOIajTTa7ymZKVVg139UEz73evjtKhDDnURo7CSZ VPy3/3LPNJK3FSY92P2vHy+YgsoelCCAswsO9gMDBY3Oc8RzVi3NyG1/JspV0CZy QkAH85ggLfyhoHTyMs5DG8kq6btcaJnQ1+UxZVHA3XCW0jy1fKQ2GiUZmnkeD5DU Utt+tnL0AKu/6Y6zfXcG0YP/fC+p0uk81k/uqRqrTv+r24xSrT2ekIz6p9/VH4o= =OpcN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list foundation-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l