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Iron law of oligarchy· History of Wikipedia

Dynamic consensus + charismatic authority; chaotic consensus + institutionalised oligarchy of limited scope; sclerotic consensus + institutionalised oligarchy of expanding scope; atrophied consensus + entrenched institutionalised oligarchy.

Distributed responsibility + charismatic authority; distributed responsibility + institutional authority; distributed irresponsibility + institutional authority.

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General model: Informal collective > growth (scope/participants/significance) and tendency towards formalisation (explicit and implicit norms and structures)
 * Antagonism

Community/ArbCom dichotomy