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[Aaronsw.com] Raw Thought: Aaron Swartz's weblog: "The idea that a lot of people have of Wikipedia," he noted, "is that it's some emergent phenomenon -- the wisdom of mobs, swarm intelligence, that sort of thing -- thousands and thousands of individual users each adding a little bit of content and out of this emerges a coherent body of work."”  But, he insisted, the truth was rather different: Wikipedia was actually written by "a community .a dedicated group of a few hundred volunteers" where "I know all of them and they all know each other".

[Mediangler] Who Writes Wikipedia - But Where Do You Go For... : When I’ve done work on Wikipedia I’ve found my stuff deleted almost before I could save it - like there are culture vultures overlooking Wkidpedia waiting to kill anything that doesn’t fit the norm, as seen by an anonymous army of correctional knowledge workers. That’s my worry.

[Dan Blank: Publishing, Innovation and the Web] Collaborative Journalism, Take Two: Collaborative Journalism, Take Two September 4th, 2006 by Dan Blank Collaborative journalism seems to be taking steps forward online, thanks to wiki’s. One entrepreneur created a website and originally hired freelancers to create articles.

 [Raw] Who writes Wikipedia?: When you put it all together, the story become clear: an outsider makes one edit to add a chunk of information, then insiders make several edits tweaking and reformatting it. In addition, insiders rack up thousands of edits doing things like changing the name of a category across the entire site -- the kind of thing only insiders deeply care about.

[Confused Of Calcutta] Counting what counts: Musing about Wikipedia and... : What worried me about gatekeepers, something I could not articulate well before this, was the ability of the gatekeepers to restrict creativity. Particularly when we are yet to grow out of the Blame Culture and Hierarchy and Command and Control.

[Nerd Update] Who Writes Wikipedia? (Aaron Swartz's Raw... : Who Writes Wikipedia? (Aaron Swartz's Raw Thought) Source: del.icio.us Posted: Monday, September 4th 2006 at 2:00pm

[Smart Mobs] Research on Wikipedia authorship: When you put it all together, the story become clear: an outsider makes one edit to add a chunk of information, then insiders make several edits tweaking and reformatting it. In addition, insiders rack up thousands of edits doing things like changing the name of a category across the entire site -- the kind of thing only insiders deeply care about.

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