Outsider's view re: contributions - more granular approach needed?

Yes, I am sure that there were places where spontaneous collaboration happened and was effective. However, I doubt that is all that frequent. I meant what I said "I have never actually seen it work in practice", and I mean that literally: in my experience 'collaboration' all too often means some editors getting together and deciding that the core values don't apply to them or 'their' topic ("consensus"!). Certainly, given how diverse Wikipedia is, the model is nowhere near the norm. - Brya 05:08, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Brya05:08, 3 February 2010