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<p>OloliTacot: boceltracac</p> <hr /> <div>taelalnoo<br /> {{:Charter/Nav}}<br /> <br /> Wikipedia is ''not'' one big happy family. Wikipedia ''was'' one big happy family -- oh, yeah, some ruffhousing now and then, but not what it is now. Wikipedia is no longer even a small town. We do ''not'' know everyone we meet. Wikipedia is a small ''city'', and still growing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special%3AStatistics]. We now spend more time and energy dealing with growing pains than with useful content, and this imbalance is getting ''worse''. <br /> <br /> The Wikipedian Community began with ideals -- noble ideals, excellent ideals. But some of these ideals are demanding for ''any'' large community. '''Good outweighs bad''' in the absence of structure ''only'' as long as the good are able to ''watch'' the bad. We can no longer resist the need to make '''some''' basic changes to our most cherished beliefs. We have many choices in how we do this, but no choice at all in whether we can retain, unchanged, what we had before. '''''We cannot.''''' <br /> <br /> If we resist change, then social forces will ''destroy'' our ideals in fact, even as they continue to give them lip service. If we '''abandon our duty''' to craft the future, it will be crafted for us by others. <br /> <br /> Besides our social problems, we also find ourselves beset by technical difficulties. These are relatively minor, but are related to our social problems, and must also be addressed. <br /> <br /> We cannot alter human nature without limit. We cannot engineer human group dynamics as easily as server networks. We must take into account immutable human nature, choose our direction for the future, and embrace it.</div>

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