How Wikipedia Works
This entry was posted on 07-23-2007 and is filed under uncategorized.
From Sean Silverthorne: "The
case offers students a chance to understand issues such as how online cultures are made and maintained, the power of self-policing organizations, the question of whether the service is drifting from its core principles, and whether a Wikipedia-like concept can work in a business setting."
HBSThe story gives an outsider's view of how Article Deletion works. The author gives an insight into inclusionists and deletionists. He gives a number of 1,200 dedicated Wikipedians running the show, which ties into my prior blog about how would a for profit Wikipedia work? It makes it more possible. Maybe neither Sanger or Wales has it right. The next iteration might be, 1,200 paid workers, and volunteer contributors.
