On 7/3/05, JAY JG <jayjg(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
Wikipedia is about creating an encyclopedia, not
promulgating an ideology.
I agree with your point about not focusing on admins, although I think
that end is best served by making many people admins as it dillutes
any unintended power of adminship.
I wanted to make a comment specifically to what I quoted above. Please
pardon me for taking you out of context.
There were already a number of good encyclopedias before Wikipedia
came about. You can not separate Wikipedia the encyclopedia from
Wikipedia the ideology. I do not think this is a bad idea.
Even as a non-editor you can not be completely ignorant of the
Wikipedia ideology if you are to effectively use our resources, since
the results of vandalism and POV pushers will always end up visible
once in a while and because the inner workings of the project are so
useful by themselves (it's very handy to have some ability to ask
questions of the person who wrote the text you are reading).