There’s a tradition at Wikipedia of predicting when a particular milestone will be reached. Earlier expectations about Wikipedia were laughably conservative. While people have …

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There’s been a lot of coverage of the New York Times story “Keeping News of Kidnapping Off Wikipedia.” It’s prompted discussion about balancing …

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This year’s picnic will be better than ever, as we’ll have an unconference to get us started:

The 1st Wiki-Conference New York will …

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In Noam Cohen’s recent New York Times article about “The Wars of Words on Wikipedia’s Outskirts” (i.e., the recent ArbCom decision about …

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I recently noted there were some new numbers on the 100,000 feature-quality articles page. In May 2008 (based on a January assessment I believe …

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The challenge at the heart of collective action is how cooperative behavior emerges when there are apparent reasons for it not to. This is famously …

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In the past few months I have received invitations to join varied Google Groups. While they are no doubt easy to set up, the (ironic …

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A brief historical essay is now available at ACM Interactions (or on my site):

“Wikipedia was an accident.” I sometimes offer this (admittedly) exaggerated claim …

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The season finale of a television series can leave me in one of three states: (1) what a sad/pitiful ending to something that was …

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In my previous entry I commented on one of the articles in the Episteme Wikipedia issue. I thought it would also share my comments on …

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