Mitch Kapor: Why Wikipedia is the next big thing by ZDNet's Dan Farber -- At the close of the first day of the Open Source Business Conference, Mitch Kapor explained why he thinks Wikipedia is the next big thing. He first deconstructed the online encyclopedia, which is one of the top 20 Web sites, and punctured holes in myths, such as “someone has to be in charge of things [...]"
I think Kapor is correct. Wikipedia is a model that can be applied to other bases of knowledge, both small and large. The difficulties in building these systems is acquiring and managing the core of enthusiasts to to it and persuading them that they may need to rethink the hierarchical knowledge management model that so many of us have grown up with.
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