QUOTE(gomi @ Mon 14th July 2008, 1:27am)
I suspect not, for there is no value of whomever that can make anything at all happen on Wikipedia, with the possible exception of Mike Godwin, and his powers are substantially limited in scope.
Well, you're leaving out the Board of Trustees, unless you're trying to restrict "whomever" to one person. But the Board's a small enough body that, unlike the community, it actually could act. Absent that, the Arb Comm could probably also make some significant change by overstepping its authority, provided it did it gradually and incrementally enough. But you've identified the fundamental problem: it's not that Wikipedia's run by a cabal, or that Wikipedia's run by a mob, or that Wikipedia's run by 14 year old admins. It's that Wikipedia is neither run nor runnable.