Larry Sanger

I kind of wish that Wikipedians were much more welcoming to new people and actually did, you know, not kick them out so quickly.

Well put.

And that actually is thesis eight, end indefinite blocking.

It's related to that anyway.

But I don't actually mean to skip ahead.

So I'm simply saying I invented that rule.

I made that rule.

Let's get rid of it.

Okay.

Number six.

I don't know if you want to keep going through all of the rules.

Right.

But I'm not saying this is true of all Wikipedians.

I'm simply saying that there are some Wikipedians who are trusted enough that they have been given certain rights in the system.

So the arbitration committee, the bureaucrats, and the Czech users are three, I don't know if they're necessarily the most powerful groups, but they sort of represent some of the most powerful people on Wikipedia.

There are 62 people who are in one or more of those groups right now.

And of them, 85% are anonymous.

Yeah.

How can that be?

We don't even know who they are and they're essentially leading Wikipedia.