Founder of wikipedia (and all the other wiki initiatives)
Amazing things accomplished by these people. They created on of the web’s top 100 website in less than 4 years.
Photo by mac steve
An interesting stat on wikipedia:
0.7% of users make 50% of the content (= 530+ people)
2% of users make 73.4% of the content (=1470+ people)
Wikipedia quality is ensured by the software archiving system and a very dynamic, uncodified yet powerful “voting/discussion” system between users when problems arise on content
Wikipedia is a constitutional monarchy. People are free but there is a need for an ultimate voice to arbitrate on some matters. They are transitioning to total democracy but very carefully because people can turn their values against them, by organizing artificially massive votes on a particular matter (example of neo-nazis trying to turn down some historiy articles, asking their network to pound wikipedia)
Wikipedia faces 3 challenges to further scale it’s model: – software/automation of certain tasks is gonna be necessary – arbitration on political/philosophical issues – preserve a model built on “Love and respect”
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