[Foundation-l] "The problem with Wikipedia..."

[John Vandenberg]

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 8:51 AM,  <susanpgardner at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thank you all! Very helpful. I'll attribute it to Gareth, and note that it's passed into widespread use.

"The popular observation is that Wikipedia only works in practice. In
theory, it can never work."

Sheizaf Rafaeli and Yaron Ariel, "Online Motivation Factors:
Incentives for Participation and Contribution in Wikipedia", published
in "Psychological aspects of cyberspace", Cambridge University Press.
ISBN 0521694647  p.243

http://gsb.haifa.ac.il/~sheizaf/cyberpsych/11-Rafaeli&Ariel.pdf
http://books.google.com.au/books?id=2NaSFhCAU0oC&q="Wikipedia+only+works+in+practice"

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John Vandenberg