That looks like the paper I read a preview copy of a few months ago at
a wiki-meetup! I remember thinking much the same thing as David
(Gerard) at the time, along the lines of "this is great stuff!". :-)

Carcharoth

On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 10:42 PM, Samuel Klein <[email protected]> wrote:
> Forwarding from foundation-l.
>
> David - thanks for the heads-up; this essay is brilliant, and not just
> about biology.
> Here's a shorter link:  http://j.mp/ten-wiki-rules
>
> Magnus - I see your hand in this :-)   I'd love to see the edit
> history...  Have you or your co-authors also published this on one of
> the major wikis?
>
> SJ
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: David Gerard <[email protected]>
> Date: Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 4:43 PM
> Subject: Re: [Foundation-l] Has Wikipedia changed since 2005?
> To: Wikimedia Foundation Mailing List <[email protected]>
>
>
> On 28 September 2010 12:38, David Gerard <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Why are there any experts on Wikipedia?
>
> I predict Wikipedia's biology articles will far outshine its
> philosophy articles for the simple fact that the biologists bother:
>
> http://www.ploscompbiol.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pcbi.1000941
>
> (That article is great, by the way. It gives strong reasons for
> experts to put in the effort to bother.)
>
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