Subscribe TCS: Tech Central Station - The Faith-Based Encyclopedia
posted in tech by jon on 2004-11-16
TCS: Tech Central Station - The Faith-Based EncyclopediaExcellant article dissecting the effectiveness (or lack thereof) of the "collaborative" model, using the wikipedia project as an example.Best quote:
Is this a surprising result? Not really: Take the statements of faith in the efficacy of collaborative editing, replace the shibboleth "community" with the banal "committee," and the surprise dissolves before your eyes. Or, if you are of a statistical turn of mind, think a little about regression to the mean and the shape of the normal distribution curve. However closely a Wikipedia article may at some point in its life attain to reliability, it is forever open to the uninformed or semiliterate meddler.
