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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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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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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I have to agree with Sage Ross on his response to Brad Wray’s The Epistemic Cultures of Science and Wikipedia: a Comparison. Wray is …

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In the conclusion of my dissertation I note how in 2004 a disaffected Wikipedian told me the project had gone downhill. Ironically, a few years …

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A discussion on wikiEN-l about yet another Wikipedia alternative prompted me to wonder about the status of the GNU Free Documentation (GFDL 1.3) to …

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As I indicated when I posted a draft of a new chapter on consensus, I’ve been busily working on transforming the dissertation into a …

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In articles about Wikipedia, former Britannica editor Charles Van Doren is frequently cited as saying “because the world is radically new, the ideal encyclopedia should …

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I have spent much of the summer working on revising the dissertation into a book manuscript. One of the big changes is a new chapter …

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