User blog comment:Doc (K-)Flux(7)/Free Speech- How it applies to us, and how we should use it/@comment-5671588-20140610120131/@comment-4845243-20140612211916

I assume that by bureaucracy, you are using this definition (or a similar one):


 * a system of government in which most of the important decisions are made by state officials rather than by elected representatives.

Of course, applying any government type to a wiki is problematic, since wikis do not have the same type of "governments" as nations do. However, the definition of bureaucracy cannot be applied to the way this wiki is run. In the past that would definitely have been true, but the most important decisions are now made by the community itself (which is democracy insofar as democracy can apply to a wiki) or by admins elected by the community (representative democracy, which is not bureaucracy).