This link has been bookmarked by 10 people . It was first bookmarked on 27 Mar 2007, by Mark pearson.
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01 Dec 14
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Although the Internet encyclopedia
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Fewer people contribute to the arcane entries, and the contributors all tend to have some degree of specialized expertise in the field. For general-interest subjects, on the other hand, it's a free-for-all. Everyone feels qualified to add his two cents, and the entries decay toward, as Wales puts it, "unreadable crap."
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ective mediocrit
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27 Sep 11
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02 Apr 09
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18 Mar 08
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Fewer people contribute to the arcane entries, and the contributors all tend to have some degree of specialized expertise in the field. For general-interest subjects, on the other hand, it's a free-for-all. Everyone feels qualified to add his two cents, and the entries decay toward, as Wales puts it, "unreadable crap."
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the Law of the Wiki: Output quality declines as the number of contributors increases. Making matters worse, the best contributors will tend to become more and more alienated as they watch their work get mucked up by the knuckleheads, and they'll eventually stop contributing altogether, leading to a further fall in quality. As Dave Winer puts it, "No matter how good something is, there are always more idiots and morons to take it down."
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impose centralized control over the output
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16 Sep 07
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Why are entries on arcane topics generally better than those on more broadly understood topics? I would guess that the reason's pretty simple: Fewer people contribute to the arcane entries, and the contributors all tend to have some degree of specialized expertise in the field. For general-interest subjects, on the other hand, it's a free-for-all. Everyone feels qualified to add his two cents, and the entries decay toward, as Wales puts it, "unreadable crap."
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In other words, the example of Wikipedia actually undercuts, rather than supports, the Web 2.0 tenet of "collective intelligence." It reveals that collectivism and intelligence are actually inversely correlated. Here, then, is what I'll propose as the Law of the Wiki: Output quality declines as the number of contributors increases. Making matters worse, the best contributors will tend to become more and more alienated as they watch their work get mucked up by the knuckleheads, and they'll eventually stop contributing altogether, leading to a further fall in quality. As Dave Winer puts it, "No matter how good something is, there are always more idiots and morons to take it down."
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27 Mar 07
Mark pearsoninverse relationship between collectivism & intelligence in the 'collective intelligence' operating in the Wikiverse.
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04 Dec 05
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25 Oct 05
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