wiki editing
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 of effort contributed
open source
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
wikipedia
Jason Scott, of textfiles.com and BBS: The Documentary, presented a talk on the failure of Wikipedia at Notacon 3 this weekend. I highly recommend listening to his talk. It’s fascinating – full of insights into what makes Wikipedia work so well, but specifically highlighting some of the social problems