It's true when you look at the whole wikipedia.
But when you look at a given article, then you can talk about emergence
in many cases.
Jean-Baptiste Soufron, Doctorant
CERSA - CNRS, Paris 2
http://soufron.free.fr
Le 2 mai 05, à 14:54, Jimmy Wales a écrit :
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".
That's not to say that there isn't a lot to the notions of how a group
collaboration can improve on what an individual can do. My point is
just that Wikipedia functions a lot more like a traditional
organization than most people realize -- it's a community of
thoughtful people who know each other, not a colony of ants.
--Jimbo
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