> Wikipedia's purpose is to benefit readers by acting as a free widely accessible encyclopedia; How are centralization, real time editing, and user blocking pr

> Wikipedia's purpose is to benefit readers by acting as a free widely accessible encyclopedia; How are centralization, real time editing, and user blocking properties toward the above goal? You probably know full well that network effects are prohibiting any other collaborative knowledge base from from ever croping up again. All big companies link against wikipedia because the network effect, all funding and donations go to wikipedia due to the network effect, all editors spend their time on wikipedia due to the network effect. Wikipedia is eating it's own childen, and if we ever want to get something better, it either needs to grow up and start acting like a responsible adult (which we know it won't because at it's core is the failed web equivalent of the stanford prison expetiment), or die and make space for a new genration of tools.