On 10/9/07, Charlotte Webb charlottethewebb@gmail.com wrote:
On 10/9/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
Oh yeah. The fundamental problem of the Wikipedia method is that massive collaboration is *hard*.
"Massive" collaboration generally only occurs in project space. In the course of editing an article or suite of related articles you'll probably collaborate with a few dozen people at the most, and usually a lot fewer.
That's relevant for probably the 10th percentile editors and very focused people in the 1 percentile editors; the 0.1 percentile editors with roughly 40% of total contributions are almost necessarily playing with their fingers in dozens of pies simultaneously.