The Wikipedia Revolution: How a Bunch of Nobodies Created the World's Greatest Encyclopedia

So how exactly has Wikipedia kept its good name while newer platforms have failed? And what transferable lessons does it offer?

Clay Shirky, an expert on the sociology and economics of the Internet, has estimated that Wikipedia currently represents around 100 million man-hours of devoted effort in writing and editing. But even if you could print Wikipedia in its entirety, its hyperlinks replaced by cross-referenced page numbers, you’d still be a far cry from a manual enabli... See more

Wikipedia, for instance, is one of the most astonishing triumphs of the past twenty years, and no collaborative enterprise—as far as I know—has ever been organized at such a vast scale, with that particular architecture, with such world-changing success.