Due to the nature of its decision-making processes, any substantial reform of the Wikipedia project faces significant obstacles. We have a status quo problem. Why?
Compounding all other contributory factors to the inertia of reform is the high threshold of support demanded for any change, which can be crudely reckoned at a supermajority of participants. This may be rooted in the original association of consensus decision making with a requirement of unanimity or near-unanimity. This is not the only explanatory hypothesis, however;
Due to the nature of its decision-making processes, any substantial reform of the Wikipedia project faces significant obstacles. We have a status quo problem. Why?
Compounding all other contributory factors to the inertia of reform is the high threshold of support demanded for any change, which can be crudely reckoned at a supermajority of participants. This may be rooted in the original association of consensus decision making with a requirement of unanimity or near-unanimity. This is not the only explanatory hypothesis, however;