[Tomte]

"This is what the inherent failure of wikipedia is. It’s that there’s a small set of content generators, a massive amount of wonks and twiddlers, and then a heaping amount of procedural whackjobs. And the mass of twiddlers and procedural whackjobs means that the content generators stop being so and have to become content defenders."

This. Best description of Wikipedia I've read so far.

[xlm1717]

Also this:

"A very large amount of maintainers leads to infighting, procedural foolishness, and ultimately a very slow advancement schedule."

Sounds like the no-confidence vote that many wikipedia editors signed last week.

[secstate]

I think that had to do with a board appointment with serious lapses in moral judgement when he worked at Google. That, as best I can tell, has little to do with the no-confidence in how editing is handled.