Editing Wikipedia｜Dirt
Geiger and his colleagues have built a successor system called Snuggle designed to help Wikipedia editors coach people who’ve just joined the community instead of scaring them away by deleting their first attempts at edits.
Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them
So how exactly has Wikipedia kept its good name while newer platforms have failed? And what transferable lessons does it offer?
Stephen Gossett • The Internet Should Be More Like Wikipedia
Wikipedia survives and retains its passionate community also becuase it is social. You never know whom you will meet, strike up a conversation with, and as a consequence, learn from. Every Wikipedia article has a discussion page, to encourage debate and the exchange of ideas with others in the community. Imagine taking an online bulletin board, dis... See more
Andrew Lih • The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
The story of Wikipedia has inspired business, government, and academics to reevaluate accepted truths about producing works of knowledge. Credentials and central control, once considered the most important parameters for generating quality content, now yield to new terms crowdsourcinf peer production and open source intelligence. What was once only... See more