Wikipedia:The need for coordination

This is a failed proposal. Consensus for its implementation was not established within a reasonable period of time. If you want to revive discussion, please use the talk page or initiate a thread at the village pump.

A more formal approach to this subject can be found at the companion page WP:CHARTER.

This page in a nutshell: End the disorganization which has plagued the Wikipedia project as of late Increase the number of active and motivated editors Create coordinating bodies in order to accomplish the above two tasks

6,906,178. This is a truly massive number, and the story which went into creating it is almost unfathomable.

Wikipedia has an enormous number of articles, with an amount of content equal to thousands of Brittanica volumes, and more information than one could digest in an entire lifetime. However, the encyclopedia continues to run in an extremely decentralized process, forbidding a given body to drive Wikipedia to improve the encyclopedia. Despite what the sheer size of the encyclopedia says, the current method of running the encyclopedia is not conducive to improving the quality of the articles and the user experience. With a given centralized body which can make decisions on the most pressing issues, so they are not tied up in the netherworld of unclosed archived discussions in favor of generalities which might have overall consensus but eventually do little.