--- El lun, 17/11/08, Desilets, Alain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > > One thing that struck me this AM is that, while most of > Wikipedia MAY > have been written by a small core, it is doubtful that you > would have > been able to recruit that small core without a massively > collaborative > platform. In other words, the magic of Wikipedia is that it > is able to > engage millions of people into creating it, some of whom > will become > part of that core.
You're right, Alain, is the same effect that we have identified long ago in other massive collaborative projects (but not at the same level of success, I suspect) like Open Source development projects. This is only a replication of the same "onion model" identified by Crowston and Howison in: http://freesoftware.mit.edu/papers/crowstonhowison.pdf We have detected still other interesting similarities. Again I have to refer to my following thesis for that (I still need 3 more weeks and a couple of revisions from my advisor :S). Best, F. > > Alain > > PS: I don't have a blog yet. Shame on me ;-). > > _______________________________________________ > Wiki-research-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l _______________________________________________ Wiki-research-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wiki-research-l
