Wikipedia discussion
An interesting article by Clay Shirky on issues of governance, co-creation, open-ness and scale with regards to Wikipedia.
[T]here will always be problems with governance on the Wikipedia, by definition. If you don’t lock down, you will always get the problems associated with not locking down. However, to [...] lock down more, faster risks giving up the Wikipedia’s core virtue. The project may yet fail because there is no sweet spot between openess and co-creation at Wikipedia scale.
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There are certainly (multiple) sweet-spots between those extremes, depending on how much infrastructure is created to support those sweet-spots.
I'm always amazed by the people who think that openness is easy, and will somehow naturally come about regardless of ambient toolchains...
even on WP, it's not so much any incremental locking-down thta keeps the community stable, it's designing and implementing tools that let a core group of coordinated people with common sense hold their own against 50 times as many uncoordinated, bored vandals.
SJ
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