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| '''Benevolent Dictatorships = a form of peer governance where the ultimate authority lies with a few, sometimes one person.''' | | '''Benevolent Dictatorships = a form of peer governance where the ultimate authority lies with a few, sometimes one person.''' |
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| | See: [[Benevolent Dictator]] |
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| '''Eric Raymond: Are P2P processes 'benevolent dictatorships'?'''
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| "Eric Raymond had the same limitations in mind when he noted that open source projects are often run as "benevolent dictatorships." They are not benevolent because the people are somehow better, but because the dictatorship is based almost exclusively on the people's ability to convince others to follow their lead. This means that coercion is almost non-existent. Hence, a dictator who is no longer benevolent and alienates his or her followers loses the ability to dictate. The ability to coerce is limited, not only because authority is reputation-based, but also because the products that are built through a collaborative process are available to all members of the group. Resources do not accumulate with the elite. Therefore, abandoning the dictator and developing in a different direction - known as "forking" in the Open Source Software movement - is relatively easy and always a threat to the established players."
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| (http://news.openflows.org/article.pl?sid=02/04/23/1518208)
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| '''On the role of Jimmy Wales in Wikipedia'''
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| From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee
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| "“The Arbitration Committee exists to impose binding solutions to Wikipedia disputes. This solution may be anything up to and including a ban from editing Wikipedia for a period of time.
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| The Arbitration Committee is the last step in the dispute resolution process — it is a last resort to be turned to when all else has failed. Other steps, including discussion between users and, where appropriate, mediation, should be tried first. The Arbitration Committee exists to deal with only the most serious disputes and cases of rule-breaking.
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| Until the beginning of 2004, Jimbo Wales, the current head of the Wikimedia Foundation, which governs Wikipedia, dealt with all serious disputes and was the only person with the authority to ban users who were not engaging in simple vandalism (straightforward vandals can be blocked by any administrator). This role has now largely been passed to the Arbitration Committee.
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| Jimbo wrote:
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| "'''The Arbitration Committee [...] can impose a solution that I'll consider to be binding, with of course the exception that I reserve the right of executive clemency and indeed even to dissolve the whole thing if it turns out to be a disaster'''. But I regard that as unlikely, and I plan to do it about as often as the Queen of England dissolves Parliament against their wishes, i.e., basically never, but it is one last safety valve for our values."
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| (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Arbitration_Committee )
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