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Wikipedia is what convinced everyone that you could "crowd-source" everything. That inevitably spawned all sorts of doomed experiments. But the only ones who co
by hvs 11y ago
Wikipedia is what convinced everyone that you could "crowd-source" everything. That inevitably spawned all sorts of doomed experiments. But the only ones who considered Wikipedia a "doomed experiment" were those who had a vested interest in that being true.
- drakenot 11y agoWhat are some of the other success stories of the crowd-source movement besides Wikipedia? StackOverflow / StackExchange comes mind perhaps.
- smokeyj 11y agoLinux and open source in general
- astazangasta 11y agoOpen Street Maps, IMDb. Heck, Reddit and HN. This is how the net works: we build it together.
- lcswi 11y agoOpenstreetmap, freedb, musicbrainz, random totally illegal torrent site with a focus.