On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 8:34 PM, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote: > You're assuming they could have, and that this would have been worth > doing. I don't think there's any reasonable basis for such an > assumption, as it carries the implicit assumption that we understood > Wikipedia well enough to make that sort of intervention, and that's > definitely false.
Of course they *could* have tried. What we'll never know is if they would have succeeded, because they didn't try. Gardner and the Foundation seemed to eventually realize the problem, but eh, barn doors and horses. On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 8:39 PM, Fred Bauder <[email protected]> wrote: > Once the herd got going, no one had much affect. Managing the herd is what leaders were for. -- gwern http://www.gwern.net _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
