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A <b>god-king</b> is an unofficial term, sometimes used to describe the [[leader]] on a [[wiki]]-website, to which all [[bureaucrat]]s and {{tag|admin|sysops}} are accountable. A god-king can create [[WikiIndex:Policies and Guidelines|policies]] unilaterally, and has the final say on all disputes that arise. Often, the god-king is the [[owner]] of a wiki.
A <b>god-king</b> is an unofficial term, sometimes used to describe the [[leader]] on a [[wiki]]-website, to which all [[bureaucrat]]s and {{tag|admin|sysops}} are accountable. A god-king can create [[WikiIndex:Policies and Guidelines|policies]] unilaterally, and has the final say on all disputes that arise. Often, the god-king is the [[owner]] of a wiki.


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A god-king is an unofficial term, sometimes used to describe the leader on a wiki-website, to which all bureaucrats and sysops are accountable. A god-king can create policies unilaterally, and has the final say on all disputes that arise. Often, the god-king is the owner of a wiki.

In the case of the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF), it was initially Jimbo Wales, who was the founder of the WMF organization, and whose associates made-up a majority of the governing board in Wikimedia Foundation's early days.

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Some wikis, such as RationalWiki (RW), have no single god-king, but rather are ruled by an elected committee of moderators. While a god-king has the authority to do whatever they want on, to, or with the wiki, for any reason or no reason, such a committee usually is only allowed to discipline users for cause, and it can only overturn community decisions in sysop and bureaucrat elections for cause.


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