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Larry Sanger was one of the moving forces behind the pioneering Nupedia project. That makes him one of the people to thank for Wikipedia, which has been enjoying more and more visibility of late. Sanger has prepared a lengthy, informative account of the early history of Nupedia and Wikipedia, including some cogent observations on project management, online legitimacy, dealing with trolls, and other hazards of running a large, collaborative project over the Internet. As Sanger writes, "A virtually identical version of this memoir is due to appear this summer in Open Sources 2.0, published by O'Reilly and edited by Chris DiBona, Danese Cooper, and Mark Stone. The volume is to be a successor to Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution (1999)." Read on below for the story (continued tomorrow).
Mathias Schindler wrote:
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Hier der wesentliche Absatz, der soweit ich es beurteilen kann in die gleiche Richtung wie Ulis Kritik geht:
"Wikipedia became what it is today because, having been seeded with great people with a fairly clear idea of what they wanted to achieve, we proceeded to make a /series of free decisions/ that determined the policy of the project and culture of its supporting community. Wikipedia's system is neither the only way to run a wiki, nor the only way to run an open content encyclopedia. Its particular conjunction of policies is in no way natural, "organic," or necessary. It is instead artificial, a result of a series of /free/ choices, and we could have chosen differently in many cases; and choosing differently on some issues might have led to a project /better/ than the one that exists today."
Eigentlich kann ich dem Text bisher nur zustimmen. Was man daraus für Schlußfolgerungen zieht, was zu tun sein, ist natürlich etwas anderes - da gehen die Meinungen auseinander!
Ich bin schon gespannt auf die Fortsetzung.
Gruß, Jakob