Free-Form Authority Models - P2P Foundation - 0 views
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‘authority models’in peer production, contrasts owner-centric authority models from free-form models
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define the authority models at work in such projects. The models define access and the workflow, and whether there is any quality control.
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the owner-centric model, entries can only be modified with the permission of a specific ‘owner’ who has to defend the integrity of his module.
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The free-form model connotes more of a sense that all users are on the “same level," and that expertise will be universally recognized and deferred to.
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the owner-centric authority model assumes the owner is the de facto expert in the topic at hand
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In the case of the Wikipedia, the adherents of the owner-centric model, active in the pre-Wikipedia "Nupedia" model, lost out, and presumable, the success of Wikipedia has proven them wrong
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dominance of difficult people, trolls, and their enablers
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Far too much credence and respect accorded to people who in other Internet contexts would be labelled "trolls."
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Wikipedia has, to its credit, done something about the most serious trolling and other kinds of abuse: there is an Arbitration Committee that provides a process whereby the most disruptive users of Wikipedia can be ejected from the project. But there are myriad abuses and problems that never make it to mediation, let alone arbitration.
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most people working on Wikipedia--the constant fighting can be so off-putting as to drive them away
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any person who can and wants to work politely with well-meaning
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root problem: anti-elitism, or lack of respect for expertise.
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Wikipedia lacks the habit or tradition of respect for expertise
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nearly everyone with much expertise but little patience will avoid editing Wikipedia
