[p2p-research] Who Writes Wikipedia? (blog post by Aaron Swartz)

[Michel Bauwens]

Eugene,

this is quite important regarding peer governance, could you possible report
on this for our blog, or find someone who can?

Michel

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 5:05 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 09:57:49PM -0500, Paul D. Fernhout wrote:
>
> >   Out of sight is out of mind, so it’s a short hop to thinking these
> > invisible people aren’t particularly important. Thus Wales’s belief
> > that 500 people wrote half an encyclopedia. Thus his assumption that
> > outsiders contribute mostly vandalism and nonsense. And thus the comments
> > you sometimes hear that making it hard to edit the site might be a good
> > thing.
>
> There's a huge stink about deletion squads in the German Wikipedia
> going on. It increasingly looks like Wikipedia will be forked into
> a distributed git-backed depository.
>
> http://scytale.name/blog/2009/11/announcing-levitation
>
> Good riddance.
>
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