On 17 April 2010 13:52, Eugene van der Pijll <eug...@vanderpijll.nl> wrote: > David Gerard schreef:
>> Clay Shirky was right: CZ collapsed under the weight of its own bureaucracy: >> http://many.corante.com/archives/2006/09/18/larry_sanger_citizendium_and_the_problem_of_expertise.php > Clay Shirky was wrong. He focussed on one part of the CZ hierarchy: the > experts, and the amount of overhead that trying to recognize expertise would > cause. But there was no overhead, because experts never came to CZ. He was right, I think, in noting that the bureaucracy was the problem. The expert procedure was symptomatic of the dysfunctional attitude. Surely Wikipedia should have taught us that you can't cure bureacracy with more bureacracy. >> Wikipedia, and its community and bureaucracy, sucks in oh so many >> ways. But it does in fact work and produce something people find >> useful. > Let's not forget that CZ also has produced content. And the single best > decision Larry made was to put a CC license on that content, so that > that content is still useful. As long as there are people writing for > CZ, WP (and therefore humankind :-) profits. This is, of course, true. The CZ community needs to say "OK, we failed. What now?" - d. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l