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Mixing Oil and Water: Authorship in a Wiki World

Imagine a scenario where three people will make contributions to a Wiki page at different points in time. Each person edits the page and then saves their changes to what becomes the latest version of that page. History Flow connects text that has been kept the same between consecutive versions.

By Jeff Atwood ·
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open source

Is Writing More Important Than Programming?

The unofficial Wikipedia blog entry The Future of Open Source Five Years Ago 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 desktop utopia that was supposed to unseat Windows? And

By Jeff Atwood ·
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