Wiki as a Commons

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

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Wikipedia and TikTok seem miraculous. The next wave of the Internet will enable collaboration in many more field - both synchronous and asynchronous.

I think my experiences with the Wikimedia community have given me a pretty realistic view of how wonderful but also how difficult community-run projects can be. There are some issues that community-driven projects are prone to running up against: deciding issues when the community is split, dealing with abuse and harassment within the community, ha... See more

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