[Wikipedia-l] The "Casio Effect"

[Brion VIBBER]

Tesla Coil wrote:
> On 4 Sep 2002, Krzysztof P. Jasiutowicz wrote:
>>There was a notion of teaming up groups of Wikipedians around 
>>some areas of Wikipedia content - operating systems, unix, punk
>>rock or the Roman Empire.
>>
>>They should have some infrastructure (namespace ? mailing list ?)
>>to rely on in order to coordinate, review and discuss. Not to 
>>mention do some planning and quality assurance.
> 
> What happened to this idea?  Against this suggestion, so much
> talk of "experts" appears a wish that collective intelligence
> will arrive as embodied by individuals and spare the problem 
> of acheiving better organization of it in social form.  

This sounds like a natural extension of the WikiProjects that are 
already floating around.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)