y collaborative effort, it helps to set ground rules. A team wiki is no different. Before designing your wiki, draw up a list of organizing principles. Many wiki softwares, built to be "opinionated," have organizing principles baked in. For instance, Slite software favors simplicity over customizability .

The irony here is that the internet is a machine for solving collective action problems. Wikis let millions of people coordinate their labor to produce all manner of materials (most notably, the greatest encyclopedia the world has ever seen), and source-control systems like git let large numbers of people collaborate to build software together... See more

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 aro

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