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Crowdsourcing/The Wikipedia way
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There was never a business plan for Wikipedia. … For something completely new, the business plan is going to be a bunch of made-up nonsense. Jimmy Wales
Wikipedia and its sister projects differ from a conventionally-managed project in the same way the previous section’s DNA computer differs from a microprocessor. This section introduces some of those differences.
Division of labour
Wikipedia, the triumph of crowdsourcing
Progress without a plan
The drive for quality
Summing up
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