W12 blog topic: Discuss Reagle’s chapter 6 - Irma KOUM

The article is about the person who represent the authority on Wikipedia. It deals with many “names” to define the authority as ‘Benevolent dictator” or “Constitutional monarchy”. Moreover it deal with the persons who has strong personality & involvement  on edits and discussions so they can be seen and they can put themselves as a “Chief editor”.

In this article I found the sentence below really interesting & true :  “Wikipedia is not an anarchy, though it has anarchistic features. Wikipedia is not a democracy, though it has democratic features. Wikipedia is not an aristocracy, though it has aristocratic features. Wikipedia is not a monarchy, though it has monarchical features »

I found this sentence true because in every communities you need rules to make everything works just a society. This sentence makes me really think about a book I have read “ Democracy in America” of Alexis de Tocqueville who was saying that in democracy is a disguise dictatorship because the persons who are not satisfied live in a monarchy because they did not choose the government who has been vote. It’s the case on Wikipedia for the edits and the discussions because for the vote it’s only the strongest idea and the majority who wins. Moreover you have on Wikipedia this kind of harshness when you are doing an article that people can feel pressured. One day I was creating an article and I did not finish to edit it yet that someone had already put it for deletion because it was lacking of reference. I was working on it and I felt like I don’t have my place there and that someone with more skills have to do it. I also think that this harshness can explain why women didn’t edit that much because I really felt persecute and I don’t want to experience that again.