Interesting article about Wikipedia

[Tenneson Woolf]

Interesting piece and question Chris - thanks. Good morning from Utah.

 

What are the simple rules of making visible, of harvesting, that when
practiced (edited) by an undefined many (randomness, chaos) produce pattern
(harvest that serves - content for specific circumstances AND process for
use across circumstances)? Yup, sounds familiar.

 

Simple example for me this week is using flickr to make visible flipcharts
from an event. I took pictures, uploaded them to flickr, sent people the
link. For them, this was new and added another quality of making visible -
energy of color, etc. For me, it is just practice (editing) in an
unrequested way (randomness) to produce a result (content and process) that
improves what was previously there.

 

I can't remember the name of the guy who wrote about the wisdom of crowds.
The simple story he uses is of people guessing the weight of a prize bull at
the county fair. Lots of uninformed people basically accumulate to get in
right on. Wonder where that weaves in here.

 

Control and wikipedia? There is wisdom available in the group that otherwise
isn't.

 

And also, what do we learn about collaboration and resilience when we
rethink available time?

 


Tenneson

 

 

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From: OSLIST [mailto:OSLIST at LISTSERV.BOISESTATE.EDU] On Behalf Of Chris
Corrigan
Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 11:34 AM
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Subject: Interesting article about Wikipedia

 

I cam across this article today:

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cs/pdf/0702/0702140.pdf

It is a statistical analysis of Wikipedia <http://www.wikipedia.com> ,
looking at whether one can acheive high levels of quality in a complex and
chaotic system.  The conclusion is that wikipedia is demonstrating that it
is a successful collaborative effort, and that the more hands you have in
something, the better the chances of moving towards quality. 

What this tells me is that a few simple rules to bring visibility to ideas
and projects help direct attention in a collaborative way and produce
resiliant results.  Using complex and chaotic systems are an deffective way
of doing that.  Sounds familiar, eh?  What can we learn about control from
wikipedia? 

Chris

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