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 :)
The First Time My Code Was Merged into Open Source, I Felt Like I Belonged
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This summer I participated as a Google Summer of Code 2026 contributor with
support from the Wikimedia Foundation building a Bulk Ocr review workflow
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