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The Myth of Wikipedia Democracy - Page 1 - The Daily Beast

Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:03:43 -0000

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"The idea that a lot of people have of Wikipedia is that it's some emergent phenomenon—the wisdom of crowds, swarm intelligence, that sort of thing… like we're a lot of ants, working in an anthill," Jimmy Wales, the site's co-founder, has said. "It's kind of a neat analogy, but it turns out it's actually not much true."

Wales examined the numbers several years ago and was surprised to learn that the most active 2 percent of users had performed nearly 75 percent of the edits on the site. "There's this tight community that is actually doing the bulk of all the editing," he said. "I know all of them, and they all know each other."

l Street Journal reported that a growing number of Wikipedia's editors are throwing in the towel, fed up with the many rules the site has instituted as it has matured. The story suggested the exodus could threaten "the brand of democratization that Wikipedia helped to unleash over the Internet—the empowerment of the amateur."

. "The idea that a lot of people have of Wikipedia is that it's some emergent phenomenon—the wisdom of crowds, swarm intelligence, that sort of thing… like we're a lot of ants, working in an anthill," Jimmy Wales, the site's co-founder, has said. "It's kind of a nea

Tags: wikipedia, information literacy

by: Carleen Huxley

Free Range Librarian › Must-read Project Information Literacy Report

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 16:57:31 -0000

Tags: information literacy, research, college students

by: Carleen Huxley

Information Literacy

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:06:51 -0000

info lit site & tutorial (including a nice graphic of the info lit cycle) and materials and courses from Scotland elibrary

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info lit site & tutorial (including a nice graphic of the info lit cycle) and materials and courses from Scotland elibrary - Dana Longley
slideshare presentation on this site: http://www.slideshare.net/scottishlibraries/information-literacy-tools-and-resources?src=related_normal&rel=1575457 - Dana Longley

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