On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:01 PM, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
http://www.techforce.com.br/index.php/news/linux_blog/scientific_study_about...
I read this article and it is true that we still may learn a from Debian. It is the only big free content community older than Wikimedian one; but, Wikimedian community is bigger, much wider and much more complex. At the other side, I think that we are now in the process of covering all our basic needs. WMF went to the legal side and community side left empty. (But, this is the known issue...)
After we cover community side, we will be definitely on our own. There will be similar movements in the future, but there is no one in the history.
As this paper is useful, it would be good to see papers which deal with Wikimedian community or with some community/project/movement which may be compared with Wikimedian one. Without relevant researches our future is almost completely unpredictable.
BTW, do we have some body which takes care about community future? I mean, is it a job of some particular committee, ED or whatever? If so, are there some reports?