On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 7:59 PM, Ward Cunningham <ward(a)c2.com> wrote:
Yup. I'm thinking the same things. Now, if all of
these were the norm, how
would work be different?
Some similar ideas discussed in this paper, to which I contributed:
"Massively Distributed Authorship of Academic Papers"
http://altchi.org/submissions/submission_wmt_0.pdf
Abstract: Wiki-like or crowdsourcing models of collaboration can
provide a number of benefits to academic work. These techniques may
engage expertise from different disciplines, and potentially increase
productivity. This paper presents a model of massively distributed
collaborative authorship of academic papers. This model, developed by
a collective of thirty authors, identifies key tools and techniques
that would be necessary or useful to the writing process. The process
of collaboratively writing this paper was used to discover, negotiate,
and document issues in massively authored scholarship. Our work
provides the first extensive discussion of the experiential aspects of
large-scale collaborative research.