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September 29, 2005
More on Wikipedia
The New York Times web site today published a CNET news piece about the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. An Esquire magazine author was writing an article explaining Wikipedia, so in order to show how it worked, he published a rough draft, full of errors and typos, on Wikipedia, and let the wiki masses have at it. According the article on the Times site, the draft Esquire article was edited 224 times in the first 24 hours after it was posted and 149 times in the next 24 hours. The Esquire author's idea was to publish the "original version" and the edited version both in the magazine.
This particular episode was something of a parlor trick (by the author's own admission); however, it does demonstrate the effectiveness of the wiki/open source movement for certain kinds of things, with certain kinds of controls. Seems like a PhD thesis waiting to be written--the effectiveness of online editing in the wiki environment.
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Posted by tdr at September 29, 2005 11:29 AM
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