The Decline of #Wikipedia: Even As More People Than Ever Rely on It, Fewer People Create It | MIT Technology Review
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The loose collective running the site today, estimated to be 90 percent male, operates a crushing #bureaucracy with an often abrasive atmosphere that deters newcomers who might increase participation in Wikipedia and broaden its coverage.
(...) In response, the Wikimedia Foundation (...) is staging a kind of rescue mission. The foundation can’t order the volunteer community to change the way it operates. But by tweaking Wikipedia’s website and software, it hopes to steer the encyclopedia onto a more sustainable path.
