>>12640749Wikipedia is a failed project. It was, from 2001-2006, a great experiment in collaborative writing, but it failed on the moderatorship, and from 2007-2010, it closed itself off, and became impossible to edit and impossible to expand, and dominated by deletionist minded bureaucrats who prevent it from fulfilling its mission. It assigns moderatorship by elections, and the elections select tiers of hierarchical administrators, culminating in the ArbCom, which is a big mistake. This turns it into a totalitarian democracy, like the Soviet Union. The ArbCom is like the politburo, and you need to tow the line to stay in the organization. Anyone who is politically slightly less than popular, or has a strange idea, is marginalized, ostracized, and finally blocked. This is a catastrophe, as this means that ridiculous rules, narrowly interpreted, are now used to prevent people from writing things that disseminate knowledge in the encyclopedia. The rules are stupid, and it was always clear they were stupid, but they were expanded and became more draconian with time, with the main phase transition in 2007. We've already been through this political process before, as humans, it's in the collective memory, it's the exact same political catastrophe that happened in the Soviet Union.
