The Decline of Wikipedia : Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It | MIT Technology Review
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Un article intéressant sur les contradiction qui pèsent sur un Commun : comment établir des règles pour le protéger qui ne limitent pas son développement et qui évitent la bureaucratisation.
Un article qui fera écho à tous ceux qui pistent les suppressionnistes : au fond, comment continuer à incorporer dans un corps social les nouveaux venu(e)s (ou, le (e) veut dire que c’est encore plus difficile pour les femmes de devenir Wikipédiennes)
Yet it may be unable to get much closer to its lofty goal of compiling all human knowledge. Wikipedia’s community built a system and resource unique in the history of civilization. It proved a worthy, perhaps fatal, match for conventional ways of building encyclopedias. But that community also constructed barriers that deter the newcomers needed to finish the job. Perhaps it was too much to expect that a crowd of Internet strangers would truly democratize knowledge. Today’s Wikipedia, even with its middling quality and poor representation of the world’s diversity, could be the best encyclopedia we will get.