> The Wikipedia editing process is broken It is broken, in my opinion, because people in charge insist that it is not (and should not be) a democracy. So in t

> The Wikipedia editing process is broken It is broken, in my opinion, because people in charge insist that it is not (and should not be) a democracy. So in the end, there is no clear understanding who is in charge, and you get people who invest lot of time and get implicit power. Democracy is a principle which, for all its failings, is there to protect interests of people who can't or don't want to fight for power full-time. Because we say, here we are being treated as equal. By explicitly setting the power that people have, democracy makes attaining implicit power somewhat pointless. Therefore, democracy is in the interest of people who want to get job done and not get so much involved in politics.