I thought some people might be interested that Larry Sanger's written an article clarifying what he has in mind for a collaborative model that improves on what he sees as Wikipedia's shortcomings:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/5/26/162017/011
(I don't agree with most of the article, but not all his suggestions are completely wrong, either.)
-Mark
We use a similar mechanism which serves the same function, but not on the a priori basis Larry would have it, but on an as needed basis. Essentially if things do not go well in the editing of an article, we fall back on administrative actions and the dispute resolution process. He would put someone "in charge" whether needed or not.
Fred
On May 28, 2006, at 3:04 AM, Delirium wrote:
I thought some people might be interested that Larry Sanger's written an article clarifying what he has in mind for a collaborative model that improves on what he sees as Wikipedia's shortcomings:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/5/26/162017/011
(I don't agree with most of the article, but not all his suggestions are completely wrong, either.)
-Mark
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On 5/28/06, Delirium delirium@hackish.org wrote:
I thought some people might be interested that Larry Sanger's written an article clarifying what he has in mind for a collaborative model that improves on what he sees as Wikipedia's shortcomings:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2006/5/26/162017/011
(I don't agree with most of the article, but not all his suggestions are completely wrong, either.)
-Mark
So Larry Sanger is complaining about Wikipedia being too anarchistic and Nicholas Carr is complaining about it being too hierarchical. You guys must be doing something right :).
I thought the most insightful part of the article was this:
"I think that the Wikipedia community made a mistake when it decided that it's the wiki part that explained Wikipedia's success. They proceeded to apply the same software and content development system, which happened to work (more or less) for an encyclopedia, to develop very different kinds of projects: a dictionary, news articles, editing public domain books, writing new books from scratch, and several more things. It seems they found they had a whopping good hammer and suddenly everything looked like a nail."
I think I've fallen into that trap myself a few times.
Anthony
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