On 17 April 2010 14:42, David Gerard <dger...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
I disagree, I don't think bureaucracy was the problem. Citizendium never got beyond a very small size and bureaucracy is only a problem on a large scale - even if there is lots of bureaucracy in a small group it is easy to navigate. It never took off because there was never a reason for it to do so: Wikipedia was good enough. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
