I enjoyed Deng's essay a lot, and I loved the parallel between writing and ProleWiki. One of the excerpts that I think should be an useful guide to us is the following:
None of our policies, however, can take effect unless they are made known to the masses, not just to the cadres.
It is essential that our writings, whether essays or articles, are not merely bubbles within which we confine ourselves. We should make an effort to spread them, to not let them die inside this website as a wasted potential. It is the reason why we organize a Twitter account, in an effort to make some of our works known, mostly articles.
Each of us editors here are exercising enormous leadership that is and will be seen by thousands of comrades.
In respect to leadership, I think ProleWiki does not apply that much, at least not as of now. When I first conceived of creating the Essays section, I saw it as a community flourishing, sharing their ideas, which indeed happily became a reality.
Perhaps these essay writings can be an influence in respect to leadership among our editors, but this is a remote potential which I do not see materialized at this point. However, the main aspect of ProleWiki is our articles, which do not carry the authorship among the written words. I think the leadership only applies to the "pen tool" in the case of actually organizing in a party, but not here in ProleWiki