[Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example

Fred Bauder fredbaud at fairpoint.net
Sun Sep 26 11:09:42 UTC 2010


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijssen at gmail.com>
> To: <fredbaud at fairpoint.net>; "Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List"
> <foundation-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 25, 2010 10:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] How bureaucracy works: the example
>
>> [...] Wikipedia is one of the
>> biggest websites in the world. Obviously that is not how the reality of
>> our
>> success is measured.
>
> Of course not. The reality of its success would be: being a comprehensive
> and reliable reference source.  It is not, yet.
>
> Peter

When you're a big success it is very hard to continue to take the
necessary actions to achieve genuine greatness. The usual response to
suggestions of change is to circle the wagons.

Fred





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