Well, maybe not a total abdication, but Jimbo has relinquished a substantial portions of his powers. See his announcement and the context.
In an upcoming academic article I discuss why calling Wikipedia a monarchy/dictatorship, while not too off the mark in its very early stages, is no longer true. It's nice not to be contradicted by the current events :)
When culture opens up to the world: Wikimedia Spain presents the booklet
“Cultural Institutions and Wikimedia”
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What if the knowledge held by museums, galleries, libraries, and archives
didn’t stay only within their walls, but could reach millions of people
around th...
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