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Wikipedia: juxtaposition of incompatible spaces and a rational belief in the power of consensus.

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Why does Wikipedia work? And how is it changing?

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"There is no doubt that many experts would, if left to their own devices, dismantle the openness and bottom-up nature that drives the success of Wikipedia. But the failure to take seriously the suggestion of any role for experts can only be considered a failure of imagination. One need only ask what an open, bottom-up system with a role for expert decisionmaking would look like."

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And How You Can Be a Part of It

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“First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.”

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"...once you begin contrasting 1968 with 2008, you might even find yourself thinking that, on balance, the Web is not an engine for social activism but an engine for social passivity."

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"...where is the boundary between expert and amateur? Are equality and truth really reconcilable ideals?...has the Internet brought us wisdom and truth, or is it high time for a cultural counterrevolution?"

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To measure a subject's worthiness for inclusion (or “notability”, in the jargon of Wikipedians), all kinds of rules have been devised. "The threshold for writing articles for Wikipedia is now so high that very few people actually do it."

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"Wikipedia is far beyond the level where it need prove anything to the world. It's there, it's huge, it's extremely useful, and whenever I find it lacking on some point I have endless opportunity to do something about it."

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"The sad truth is that "non-fiction" has been unreliable from the beginning, no matter how finely grained a section of human knowledge we wish to consider." The sadder truth is that journalist fact-checking and academic peer review are still the best alte

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"Digg and Wikipedia would do well to stop pretending they're operated by the many and start thinking of ways to rein in the power of the few."

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Jon Udell's screencast of the development of the Heavy Metal Umlaut page in Wikipedia

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WikiSeek is Wikipedia with a better search engine

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The barrier for entry is that a page be "notable;" thereafter projects evolve as they are categorieze, given disambiguation text, and links.



Check "Unread" for pages you want to re-read later. "Unread" pages show upin "My Bookmarks" on the web as d

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This HBS case study concludes that "...companies [that use wikis] must understand that a top-down approach to administering them will lead to certain extinction."

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Anyone who visits Wikipedia can edit it. This page suggests some ways to best make use of this resource.

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A new report out from IMS presents data from a survey of US higher education institutions. Google and Wikipedia are the top-rated sources of digital content. Wikipedia beats WebCT as a CMS, Moodle beats WebCT as LMS.

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compilation of public domain image sites from Wikipedia.

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Why Wikipedia won't last.<br>

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