The real shocker is that there are two dozen sexual harassment scandals against women on Wikipedia, involving editors, admins and even high-up stewards and sysops.
The real shocker is that there are two dozen sexual harassment scandals against women on Wikipedia, involving editors, admins and even high-up stewards and sysops.
It's a tip of a tongue, but I recall reading somewhere that anarchisistic-run models are prone to corruption in the respect that where the faction with the biggest power can rule it as a de-facto dictator. They suggest that acknowledging the existence of the cliques while turning it into a constitutional-republican model may help alleviate the problem by providing greater oversight or check and balances to their power.
In principle, they should. However, it's been known that ArbCom and the rest lives in thought bubbles which insulate them from getting grasp on what the public opinion might hold against them.
Perhaps this is the silent part that not many people realize, but the one thing is that Jimbo Wales is a believer Ayn Rand's ideas and Wikipedia is founded with heavy inspiration of such an idea. I haven't really read Atlas Shrugged itself but apparently it promotes an idea of epicurean ego-centrism to the detriment of altruism.
This could buttress the argument that Wikipedia's model is flawed from the start because it's DNA is filled with this wrong stuff. The ideology promotes self-centered enjoyment and turn what should be a collegial sanctum with long-term endurance in mind, into a participatory based MMORPG.
