What's leadership in Wikipedia?
Wikipedia does have a few leaders historically including Wales and Sanger who are cofounders of Wikipedia. Also, there are people who want to be in that stage who demonstrate themselves as an outstanding editiors. Besides, the “Administrators” page in Wikipedia stresses that everyone is an equal editor. Then, who is leader in Wikipeia and is that even possible to have leadership in this wanna-be utopian space?
I think leadership is inevitably needed in Wikpedia as Reagle mentioned at the beggining of this chapter. The point for me is that who would take it. Although there are founders of Wikipedia, I don't think they can be involved in any decision-making of articles and issues. I would rather prefer to have some group of experties who contributed in a specific field of Wikipedia and are selected by people. However, the basic should be same which everyone is an equal editor. Only when certian disagreements happen, and people can't make any conclusion after long history of arguing, that experties could join to help it finished.
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