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http://www.whydontyou.org.uk/blog [Why Dont You”¦Blog?] While I would hesitate from directly accusing a specific poster of sending messages for the wrong reasons, with Wikipedia how can you ever know? How do you know if LargePharma is paying for people to write up articles?

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[Billives.typepad.com] Portals and KM: trends and tools: wikis: 4,000-5,000 people are actively contributing, the rest mainly read.”Toby describes on the podcast what wikis and blogs are used for, how they rolled them out, what benefits they get, how they chose what they did, experience with bad behavior, etc. He also talked with Dan about “how wikis really helped save them time by getting around the need for a web specialist to maintain many important pages.” This is a very important benefit of wikis.

http://www.davidmattison.ca [Davidmattison.ca] The Ten Thousand Year Blog » A Riposte on the Flu Wiki: Having heard several times via comments here from at least two of the Flu Wiki’s editors, who still feel that they are doing the right thing even with no official endorsement (quoting from their About page, “… a task previously ceded to local, state and national governmental public health agencies”), I still question the validity, accountability and transparency of their exercise.

[Ross.typepad.com] Ross Mayfield's Weblog: December 2004: At Ziff-Davis, a group of 50 team members, who used to receive about 100 e-mails a day, were able to eliminate all of those e-mails by putting information on their SocialText wiki instead. According to Tom Jessiman, general manager of Ziff-Davis's 1up.com, it has resulted in soft-cost savings of perhaps $1 million because of the time that team members saved by getting the same information directly, bypassing email.

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