David Gerard wrote:
On 21/08/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email)
<alphasigmax(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I forget who said it (probably David Gerard), but
it's incredibly true:
Wikipedia doesn't scale.
Wasn't me, that I recall ...
Oh well :)
"Consensus" works when you're
confident that
everyone who's involved Has A Clue. When you've got a thousand wolves in
sheep's clothing, and you can't tell who is which (because there are so
bloody many of them! ever tried counting sheep?), that's when
"consensus" falls flat on its face.
It fails when you can no longer assume everyone isn't stupid.
That's kinda what I meant by using the term "sheep"; the "wolves"
are
the malicious nutters thrown into the mix... :-/
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