Wherein should generativity lie?
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But Wikipedia is the canonical bee that flies despite scientists’ skepticism that the aerodynamics add up.
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But Wikipedia is the canonical bee that flies despite scientists’ skepticism that the aerodynamics add up.
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But Wikipedia is the canonical bee that flies despite scientists’ skepticism that the aerodynamics add up.
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But Wikipedia is the canonical bee that flies despite scientists’ skepticism that the aerodynamics add up.
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But Wikipedia is the canonical bee that flies despite scientists’ skepticism that the aerodynamics add up.
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When people can come to take the welfare of one another seriously and possess the tools to readily assist and limit each other, even the most precise and well-enforced rule from a traditional public source may be less effective than that uncompelled goodwill.
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people of diverse backgrounds can work together on a common project with, whatever its other weaknesses, a noble aim—bringing such knowledge to the world.
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process that a person views as alien, while others arise from a process in which the person takes an active part.
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but it may also be because people have genuinely decided to treat others’ interests as their own
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group of people—more than utter strangers but less than friends
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entry points within networks and endpoints that can facilitate control
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even the most precise and well-enforced rule from a traditional public source may be less effective than that uncompelled goodwill
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People have anticipated digital “libraries of Alexandria
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slow-to-change walled garden content of formal encyclopedias
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Britannica to experiment both with a CD-ROM and a subscription-only Web site in 1994
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This scenario exhibits generativity along the classic Libertarian model: allow individuals the freedom to express themselves and they will as they choose.
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“GNUpedia,” then GNE (“GNE’s Not an Encyclopedia”). There would be few restrictions on what those submissions would look like, lest bias be introduced
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GNE would be an accumulation of views rather than an encyclopedia
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Nupedia, and it was to be built like other encyclopedias: through the commissioning of articles by experts. Wales hired philosopher Larry Sanger as editor in chief, and about twenty-five articles were completed over the course of three years
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Ward Cunningham’s wiki software was introduced to create a simple platform for contributing and making edits to others’ contributions.
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verkeersbordvrij. Not only were there few rules at first
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The discussion page provided a channel for such debate and helped new users of Wikipedia make a transition from simply reading its entries to making changes and to understanding that there was a group of people interested in the page on which changes were made and whom could be engaged in conversation before, during, and after editing the page.
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The third crucial attribute of Wikipedia was a core of initial editors, many drawn from Nupedia, who shared a common ethos and some substantive expertise.
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Wikipedia’s rules would be developed on the wiki like a student-written and student-edited honor code.
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“Postel’s Law,” a rule of thumb written by one of the Internet’s founders to describe a philosophy of Internet protocol development: “[B]e conservative in what you do; be liberal in what you accept from others.
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For timeliness, Wikipedia wins hands-down: articles near-instantly appear about breaking events of note
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Eric Raymond’s observation about the collaborative development of free software: “[g]iven enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.”37
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Wikipedia has altered its wiki software so that unregistered users cannot create new articles, but can only edit existing ones
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ne of Wikipedia’s community-developed standards is that individuals should not create or edit articles about themselves, nor prompt friends to do so. Instead they are to lobby on the article’s discussion page for other editors to make corrections or amplifications.
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MyWikiBiz was launched to help people and companies promote themselves and shape their reputations on Wikipedia
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And Wikipedia is decidedly not a democracy: consensus is favored over voting and its head counts.
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Although different users have different levels of capabilities, anyone can register, and anyone, if dedicated enough, can rise to the status of administrator.
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the survival—even growth—of a core of editors who subscribe to and enforce its ethos, amid an influx of users who know nothing of that ethos.
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Together these tools and conventions facilitate a notion of “netizenship”: belonging to an Internet project that includes other people, rather than relating to the Internet as a deterministic information location and transmission tool or as a cash-and-carry service offered by a separate vendor responsible for its content.
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And despite the fact that Wales himself is a fan of Ayn Rand70—whose philosophy of “objectivism” closely aligns with libertarian ideals, a triumph of the individual over the group—Wikipedia is a consummately communitarian enterprise
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while day-to-day work and decisions are undertaken in small, “local” groups
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When disputes come up, consensus is sought before formality,
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Wikipedia—with the cooperation of many Wikipedians—has developed a system of self-governance that has many indicia of the rule of law without heavy reliance on outside authority or boundary
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that there can be an appeal to content-independent rules on which meta-agreement can be reached, even as editors continue to dispute a fact or portrayal in a given article
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Indeed, the idea that a “neutral point of view” even exists, and that it can be determined among people who disagree, is an amazingly quaint, perhaps even naïve, notion. Yet it is invoked earnestly and often productively on Wikipedia.
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Wikipedia’s content is licensed so that anyone may copy and edit it, so long as attribution of its source is given and it is further shared under the same terms
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directness, intelligence, and good faith.
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Wikipedia shows us that the naïveté of the Internet’s engineers in building generative network technology can be justified not just at the technical layer of the Internet, but at the content layer as well. The idiosyncratic system that has produced running code among talented (and some not-so-talented) engineers has been replicated among writers and artists.
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They are verkeersbordvrij, a light regulatory touch coupled with an openness to flexible public involvement, including a way for members of the public to make changes, good or bad, with immediate effect; a focus on earnest discussion, including reference to neutral dispute resolution policies, as a means of being strengthened rather than driven by disagreements; and a core of people prepared to model an ethos that others can follow
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involvement of people in the information they read
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new ideas without gatekeepers
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shared resource and a public one, even though it is not an arm of any territorial sovereign
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involve nontechnical people in its governance.
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generative possibilities of the Internet, its capacity to bring people together in meaningful conversations, commerce, or action.
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