Although, on his user page he says that the mailing list is the place to discuss the nature of Wikipedia. That seems a bit strange to me though - I am quite sure that the volume of discussion about the nature of Wikipedia in talk pages and meta pages vastly outweighs the discussions on the mailing lists, and has a greater influence of people's behavior, and wiki-policy.
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Brian <[email protected]> wrote: > I believe the point that Jimbo is making (i will certainly be corrected if > wrong :-) is that there is no externally imposed hierarchy. The wiki really > did start as a tabula rasa, and all discussions of its hierarchy can be > found in its pages. > > > On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 1:23 PM, James Rigg > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Jimmy Wales <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > James Rigg wrote: >> >> Thanks geni. >> >> >> >> So, to put it crudely, the talk of full transparency and lack of >> >> hierarchy is now viewed as just naive idealism that existed at the >> >> start of the project, and which has now been abandoned? >> > >> > No, not at all. >> > >> > >> >> But there isn't full transparency, and there is a hierarchy. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> foundation-l mailing list >> [email protected] >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l >> > > > > -- > You have successfully failed! > -- You have successfully failed! _______________________________________________ foundation-l mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-l
