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The Internet Should Be More Like Wikipedia
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It sounded like utopia to me, before I remembered that a key part of our digital infrastructure is run similarly. Wikipedia remains one of the most-visited sites on the web, and it is owned and managed by the nonprofit Wikimedia Foundation. It shows. Wikipedia has never tried to become more than it is. It never pivoted to video or remade itself&nbs
... See moreNew York Times • Opinion | the Great Delusion Behind Twitter - The New York Times
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Today’s internet is an Internet of Beefs. Flat, global networks like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube are overrun by memetic epidemics — harassment mobs, disinformation, conspiracy theories, alternative facts, troll farms, state actors, ransomware, extremists. How is it that Wikipedia, with its cooperative ownership, has not been overrun by these sam... See more
Gordon Brander • Wiki as a Commons
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And the builders of the web’s most popular platforms have largely adopted an enlightened approach: they follow the advice summarized as one of Wikipedia’s pillars: “Act in good faith, and assume good faith on the part of others.”
Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson • Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future
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The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia
Andrew Lihamazon.com
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The Internet has so far forgotten the bias for democracy that long reigned among offline clubs, public companies, and other associations. How can the Internet catch up to my mother’s garden club—or, even better, enable a new renaissance in creative self-governance?
The Internet can enable much more than just a return to regimes of bylaws and boards.... See more
The Internet can enable much more than just a return to regimes of bylaws and boards.... See more
University of Colorado Media Enterprise Design Lab • Online Communities Are Still Catching Up to My Mother's Garden Club
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