On May 2, 2005, at 8:54 AM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Alex Krupp wrote:
I think all Wikipedians would enjoy the book The
Wisdom of Crowds by
James Surowiecki. The basic premise is that crowds of relatively
ignorant individuals make better decisions than small groups of
experts. I'm sure everyone here agrees with this as Wikipedia is run
this way
It's probably interesting to note that a central theme when I give
public talks is precisely that Wikipedia is _not_ run this way, and
that wikipedia is _not_ an instance of "The Wisdom of Crowds".
Let us hope it stays that way.