Crowdsourcing/The Wikipedia way

There was never a business plan for Wikipedia. … For something completely new, the business plan is going to be a bunch of made-up nonsense.

—Jimmy Wales

Wikipedia and its sister projects differ from a conventionally-managed project in the same way the previous section’s DNA computer differs from a microprocessor. This section introduces some of those differences.

1. Division of labour
2. Wikipedia, the triumph of crowdsourcing
3. Progress without a plan
4. The drive for quality
5. Summing up

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