Oldak Quill wrote:
I see the equality between the old boys and the newbies as one of
Wikipedia's greatest assets for the reasons I state above. It prevents
anyone from becoming over-mighty and abusing their power and damaging
Wikipedia. Leaders shouldn't come to the job because of the perks and
benefits - they should fight for it because they truly want it and
believe in the project.
That's a nice fantasy, but nobody works for no reward at all. For
instance, we reward random editors by letting their contributions
appear on a top-20 website; editors who continually have all their
edits reverted eventually get the hint and go away. If every policy
I propose gets shot down or subverted, how long do you think I'm
going to keep doing it?
Stan