Reboot7: Lessons from Wikipedia
More from Reboot7 -- Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia: There are now 22 languages in Wikipedia with more than 10,000 articles each. Everyone can write of course, that's the basic idea, but Wikipedia is actually pushed forward by a small committed community. 50% of all edits are done by just 0.7% of all users. The most active 2% of the users have done 73% of all edits.
In this there are lessons for people that "do all kinds of interesting things on the internet". In a community model, says Wales, "reputation is a natural outgrowth of human interactions. Users are powerful and must be respected."
Every user/reader/community member counts, I guess he's saying. Agree.
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