Wiki
...the ever-increasing feature set of the Wki markup language has become more arcane and more user-unfriendly. Even a new user who braves the community policies is likely to be scared off by the increasing complexity of the markup language.
Andrew Lih • The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
Clay Shirky, an expert on the sociology and economics of the Internet, has estimated that Wikipedia currently represents around 100 million man-hours of devoted effort in writing and editing. But even if you could print Wikipedia in its entirety, its hyperlinks replaced by cross-referenced page numbers, you’d still be a far cry from a manual enabli... See more
Lewis Dartnell • The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm
Wikipedia was, in some ways, the first Media DAO (I'm not the first person to say this)
I listened to co-founder of Wikipedia @jimmy_wales speak last week
He said something I keep thinking about, so I gotta do a quick thread 🧵
pensaba que debía asegurar la entrega a tiempo y la alta calidad de los productos.
Eric Ries • El método Lean Startup: Cómo crear empresas de éxito utilizando la innovación continua (Spanish Edition)
La innovación es algo descentralizado, impredecible y que va de abajo arriba, pero esto no significa que no pueda gestionarse.
Eric Ries • El método Lean Startup: Cómo crear empresas de éxito utilizando la innovación continua (Spanish Edition)
Anyone can suggest edits to a Wikipedia page, but the foundation isn’t incentivized to maximize participation — there are no shareholders closely tracking monthly active users or click-through rates. Various barriers of entry — the many-layered editing process, revision displays that can be confusing to newcomers — become, in practice, the opposite... See more
Stephen Gossett • The Internet Should Be More Like Wikipedia
Watching Wikipedia, one of the most visited websites on the Internet, literally *beg* for donations each year really hits home why we need tokenized, community-owned networks. It should not have to be this way.
Wikipedia is the best known example of a page-based approach to knowledge management. Each topic has a dedicated title and page, accessible on English Wikipedia at en.wikipedia.org/{title}. A given topic has, at any given moment in time, a consensus about what is important and truthful.