[WikiEN-l] To: Jimmy Wales - Admin-driven death of Wikipedia

Mon May 29 12:50:36 UTC 2006

Peter Ansell wrote:
>> The community giveth, and the community taketh away -- but it taketh
>> away under the auspices of proper consideration by the arbitration
>> committee, not by having unpopular admins strung up by a baying lynchmob.
> 
> The community has no power to take away, other admins are the only
> ones who have any power to take away rights, and the threat of being
> told not to wheel war seems to be stopping admins from making hard
> decisions about other admins.

The community has the power indirectly through the dispute resolution
process. In something of an analogy to representative democracy, we've
appointed arbitrators to do the hard work for us.

Cheers,

N.

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