On 05/09/06, SJ 2.718281828@gmail.com wrote:
Aaron Swartz has started a series of such essays. The latest one suggests something I have long suspected, that the huge body of new and anonymous contributors, who often make the first serious stab at an article or provide a needed injection of expertise, are as important to the 'pedias development (if not more so) than the core of dedicated editors. http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikiroads http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
Greg Maxwell is sceptical of the numbers (since Aaron doesn't give methodology); since Greg is very good at running interesting numbers on the database, I've suggested to each that they contact the other.
Is anyone else writing long essays these days? Where are they kept, and how categorized?
Probably and nowhere I can think of, but they should!
- d.