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Wikipedia Announces Tighter Editorial Control
Daedalus_ wrote to mention a Reuters article reporting from Wikimania. "Wikipedia, the Web encyclopaedia written and edited by Internet users from all over the world, plans to impose stricter editorial rules to prevent vandalism of its content, founder Jimmy Wales was quoted as saying Friday." (Update: 08/06 23:45 GMT by J : But see his response here!) Meanwhile, kyelewis writes "WikiMania, the First International WikiMedia Conference is open in Germany, but if you couldn't gather the money or the courage to fly over, you can listen online in Ogg Vorbis format, or if you miss the talks, you can download them later. The WikiMania Broadcast page has more information, and the WikiMania Programme is also available, so jump in and learn more about the mysterious technology that is the wiki."
1) Create a encylopedia free-for-all-editing
2) Let people all over the world fill it with content
3) Take said content, turn off free-for-all-editing
4) Profit!
Seriously though, I feel like this is what a lot of open source organizations are doing these days, for example Redhat and most recently Mozilla/Firefox....start a small project, let everyone spend lots of time on it...it then becomes really popular, and suddenly they change the model and profit.
That's because someone's taking the piss.
It's official. Most of you are morons.
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