--- El lun, 17/11/08, Desilets, Alain <Alain.Desilets(a)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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