In retrospect, I wonder if this helps explain Jimmy Wales' reluctance to characterize Wikipedia as an idyllic example of emergent behaviour during the talk he gave last week at the Institute for International Economics.
No mention on boingboing yet--I'd like to read Cory Doctorow's take on this. We've heard a lot now about the character assassination of John Seigenthaler; we've heard less about the character assassination of Wikipedia. The former has given rise to the latter.
via Dennis Jerz. Jess also has an entry.
I've experimented with Wikipedia in my Research Methodologies course: Part 1 and Part 2. What better way to illustrate the concept of writing as process rather than (or in addition to) writing as product?
Justin Hall writes beautifully about Wikipedia as a form of palimpsest on his user's page.
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