David Gerard wrote: > 2009/6/21 Cormac Lawler <[email protected]>: > >> I think what's interesting here is asking: how does Wikipedia harness the >> energy of the public (for want of a better word) in a way that can be more >> productive, useful (or at least less brain-sporkingly nonsensical) than a >> newspaper open comment section does? What is it about this way of working - >> this mode of production - that works well? And what is afforded by 'open >> commenting' that the wiki model doesn't? (I don't we should overly idealise >> the wiki model - I'm sure we've all sporked our brains out over on-wiki >> affairs at some stage or another.) >> > I recall a presentation by Brion Vibber with a slide that said something like: > > * Let any idiot edit your website > * Make sure the good idiots outnumber the bad idiots > > Absolutely. The bad idiots can be identified by how much they try to prove that they are not idiots, or to confine the other idiots.
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