I thought this was interesting so I’m passing it along. This sentence
particularly caught my attention: “The answer, I think, is to take the best of
what both experts and markets have to offer, realizing that the combination of
the two offers a better window onto the future than either alone.” Substitute
the word “crowds” for “markets”, and perhaps there is something here that could
be applied to Wikipedia in our quest for quality, mixing the best of expertise
and crowdsourcing. I’d be very interested in hearing comments from other
Wikipedians.
Cheers,
Pine