Wiki as a Commons

-In large commons, multiple levels of management: on Wikipedia, administrators.

-Self-determination of the community: it’s a volunteer project.

-Cheap, accessible conflict resolution: rollbacks.

-Graduated sanctions for those who violate community rules: reprimands on talk pages, page rollbacks, banning.

-Community can monitor behavior: edit history.

-Community makes its own rules: wikis have no formal rules beyond actions the community carries out.

-Managed by locals: wiki users.

-Clear boundaries: the wiki domain, and those who can edit it.

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