Thread:User talk:Tyrannis/I went to the top right corner of the page/reply (2)

Your ideas are much too drastic for my tastes. The wiki's in an awkward place right now, too big to be run anarchically but too small to maintain any separation between rules and personalities.

Rules that clearly define a difference between those with responsibility and everyone else — which is the essence of bureaucracy — only make sense for a multi-faceted community. I'll use Uncyclopedia for an example (ignoring the fact that Uncyc has always been shitty, and has gotten somewhat worse over time). On Uncyc, the community is so large that some editors only ever edit the Forumspace, some the Gamespace, some a particular subset of articles, some only show up on the Vote for Feature/Deletion pages, some just do article reviews, some the Newspace, etc. It's a huge clusterfuck that needs official empowered admins — people who keep watch over everything and occasionally plunge their hands into the morass to fix something. It's the only way to effectively maintain and hold the disparate subcommunities together.

RationalWiki isn't anywhere near that level. There's a gulf between the CP crowd and everyone else, yes, but it's not yet unmanageable (though I do wonder if there will be complaints about the disappearance of view counters from any CP:WIGOers who don't pay attention to discussions on the Saloon bar or Tech Support). Whatever half-assed system we have will do fine until things get genuinely awful — I'd give it between two and five years before that happens.