Wikipedia

[jondwhite]

What the weirdest, wildest, most successful participatory project in history tells us about working together.

An interesting article about Wikipedia

https://medium.com/matter/the-36-people-who-run-wikipedia-21ecca70bcca

[rodshaw]

“every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge”“What is remarkable is that these principles have underwritten the collaboration of tens of thousands of people across the world in the production of a massive global resource. Wikipedia shows that productive non-market egalitarian collaboration on a very wide scale is possible.”Have we approached them and asked what they think about extending this to apply to all the world's resources, not just knowledge? We may have a few allies there.Their own article on censorship is also interesting, if not surprising. It doesn't mention them being censored in the US but I bet they are watched pretty closely from certain quarters.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Censorship_of_Wikipedia

[Lew]

jondwhite wrote:

What the weirdest, wildest, most successful participatory project in history tells us about working together.An interesting article about Wikipediahttps://medium.com/matter/the-36-people-who-run-wikipedia-21ecca70bcca

This is another refutation of the "economic calculation argument", according to which any large-scale, complex project needs pricing for it to work efficiently. On the contrary, the success of Wikipedia is because of – not despite – the absence of pricing.– Lew

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