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Mixing Oil and Water: Authorship in a Wiki World

When you visit Wikipedia's entry on asphalt, you get some reasonably reliable information about asphalt. What you don't get, however, is any indication of who the author is. That's because the author is irrelevant. Wikipedia is a community effort, the result of tiny slices

By Jeff Atwood ·
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Is Writing More Important Than Programming?

The unofficial wikipedia blog entry The Future of Open Source Five Years Ago [http://wikip.blogspot.com/2005/08/future-of-open-source-5-years-ago.html] makes some fascinating comparisons between the adoption rate of Linux and the adoption rate of Wikipedia. > Server-side Linux is still a powerful force, but what happened to the

By Jeff Atwood ·
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