--- El lun, 17/11/08, Desilets, Alain Alain.Desilets@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca escribió:
One thing that struck me this AM is that, while most of Wikipedia MAY have been written by a small core, it is doubtful that you would have been able to recruit that small core without a massively collaborative platform. In other words, the magic of Wikipedia is that it is able to engage millions of people into creating it, some of whom will become part of that core.
You're right, Alain, is the same effect that we have identified long ago in other massive collaborative projects (but not at the same level of success, I suspect) like Open Source development projects.
This is only a replication of the same "onion model" identified by Crowston and Howison in:
http://freesoftware.mit.edu/papers/crowstonhowison.pdf
We have detected still other interesting similarities. Again I have to refer to my following thesis for that (I still need 3 more weeks and a couple of revisions from my advisor :S).
Best,
F.
Alain
PS: I don't have a blog yet. Shame on me ;-).
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