[WikiEN-l] Jason Calancis on Wikipedia's technological obscurantism

[Jason McCabe Calacanis]

[Uncloaking] 

Yes, this is very old, and frankly with the "completion of wikipedia" on horizon my thoughts on the subject are probably irrelevant now. 

One could argue that Wikipedia needs *less* general participation at this point, and more "expert" (or targeted, or focused, whatever) participation. What % of your work is policing/reverting vs. evolving I wonder? How has that changed over the past five years? 

Perhaps making it hard to edit *is* a blessing today... Intended or not.

Of course, you folks would know better than me... At Mahalo we use wikimarkup and not wysiwyg, so I'm haven't solved the issue and I have seven f/t devs! 

Rock on,

Jason
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-----Original Message-----
From: "David Gerard" <dgerard at gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 14:40:34 
To:"Wikimedia developers" <wikitech-l at lists.wikimedia.org>,"English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Jason Calancis on Wikipedia's technological obscurantism


http://www.calacanis.com/2007/02/20/technological-obscurification-three-ways-wikipedia-keeps-99-of/

(no, he didn't know the word "obscurantism.")

Discussion please.


- d.

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