Does this sound a little weird to anyone? So this is an encyclopedia where I, right now—
I haven't signed up for anything, I haven't registered for anything— have the right to go to any page in that encyclopedia and make any changes I want. Now someone else has the right to go look at my changes and say,
“He’s an idiot,” and roll them back and change my changes. But the only kind of editorial board, or any kind of overseers of this thing, is a fairly small group of people who have the right to roll back changes if enough people disagree with them, and to kick me off if I start doing anything really inappropriate, like posting hate speech, or doing things like that. Then they’ll block me by user name, or IP, or something like this. Aside from that, this is a completely community-based, community-generated encyclopedia with no professional staff at all. Now, I heard of this for the first time, and my initial reaction was, “Give me a break. Either this is going to be incredibly trivial and silly, or something even more pernicious is going to go on; which is that, as it scales up, the bad apples are going to ruin the barrel. In other words, people with an agenda, people who enjoy messing with things, people who really don’t appreciate communities and norms are going to come in here and just pollute this thing to the point where it becomes useless.” And I went to the Wikipedia, and I tried to think of a topic that was sure to arouse passion, and sure to arouse very strong feelings among groups who really don’t get along with each other, and who have very strong agendas. And the term that I came up with: skinheads. If you don’t know anything about skinheads, they're people who shave their heads and dress in a very particular way, and they have some very, very strong ideologies, which many people find unpleasant. And internally, there are these very severe divisions. So there are
racist skinheads. There are avowedly nonracist skinheads. You can imagine those two groups of people don’t get along very well at all. So I thought that this would be a great entry to look at, to find out about the breakdown of the Wikipedia. “Skinheads, named after their shaven heads, are members of a subculture that originated in Britain in the 1960s, where they were closely tied to the Rude boy of the West Indies and the Mods of the U.K.” “Categories: There are a number of different ‘types’ . . . .” I started to read this, and a couple of things became clear. First of all, it was really informative. I wasn’t a skinhead expert, despite my haircut. And I didn’t know a lot of this.
Second of all, it’s extremely neutral, very fact-based, very kind of sober and mature in its tone. And it’s actually talking about Nazi skinheads right next to the avowedly nonracist, non-Nazi skinheads. But you don’t see the flame war breaking out on these pages, and you don’t see people screaming at each other here. And you go down and you learn why they dress the way they do and where it came from. And it reads to me exactly like a good, professionally edited, professionally generated encyclopedia entry. And I read this and I had no idea how it came about.
Then there’s this interesting link up here called “Discussion.” So here’s the link. If I wanted to edit this page right now—bang: I would click here and I could just go to town on this entry. But what’s more interesting is the discussion page. And you look at this, and this is the background to the page where people who feel like it, who are contributing, get to talk about the main page, get to talk about the main entry, and hash out their disagreements.
Keep in mind, the folk hashing out the disagreements are neo-Nazi skinheads versus nonracist skinheads versus fashion skinheads. These are not people who get along and play nice. But you read the debate going back and forth and it is an amazingly well-informed, calm, sober, very fact-based debate where they're explicitly not about promoting a point of view. And you start to see abbreviations like “POV.” That means “you’re putting a point of
view in the main encyclopedia entry, which is not what the Wikipedia is all about. Stop it!”
And then the person writes back and goes, “You know, you’re right. I’m sorry. I understand what this thing is about and I’m going to play by the rules.” And I went around and I tried to find the most controversial topics. And this place does a brilliant job of having pretty violent disagreements very, very civilly. So that bore no relation at all to anything that I saw on Ducati but it’s clearly some kind of innovation that is being fostered by new technologies. In this case, the Internet and all the stuff that we’ve put on top of it have allowed these platforms to appear where we communicate. We collaborate with each other. Some of these things form very healthy norms and we start to generate really good content via this spontaneous, volunteer kind of community effort. Nothing to do with what I saw at Ducati, but a really interesting phenomenon going on here. We talk about the blogosphere, which is this universe of blogs that we’re all generating. “Wiki,” which is where the term “Wikipedia” comes from, actually is from the Hawaiian word for “quick.” And it’s just a Web site that doesn’t have a professional staff; that is generated and built over time by the people who actually go and look at it. Now, Wikipedia is the bestknown example there.
So that’s story number two.
นี้เสียงหลุดโลกเล็กน้อยเพื่อใคร นี้จึงเป็นสารานุกรมที่ฉัน ตอนนี้ —ผมยังไม่ได้ลงอะไร ฉันยังไม่ได้ลงทะเบียนไว้สำหรับอะไร — มีสิทธิที่จะไปยังหน้าใด ๆ ในสารานุกรมนั้น และทำการเปลี่ยนแปลงที่ต้องการ ตอนนี้ใครมีสิทธิที่จะไปดูการเปลี่ยนแปลงของฉันและกล่าว “He’s an idiot,” and roll them back and change my changes. But the only kind of editorial board, or any kind of overseers of this thing, is a fairly small group of people who have the right to roll back changes if enough people disagree with them, and to kick me off if I start doing anything really inappropriate, like posting hate speech, or doing things like that. Then they’ll block me by user name, or IP, or something like this. Aside from that, this is a completely community-based, community-generated encyclopedia with no professional staff at all. Now, I heard of this for the first time, and my initial reaction was, “Give me a break. Either this is going to be incredibly trivial and silly, or something even more pernicious is going to go on; which is that, as it scales up, the bad apples are going to ruin the barrel. In other words, people with an agenda, people who enjoy messing with things, people who really don’t appreciate communities and norms are going to come in here and just pollute this thing to the point where it becomes useless.” And I went to the Wikipedia, and I tried to think of a topic that was sure to arouse passion, and sure to arouse very strong feelings among groups who really don’t get along with each other, and who have very strong agendas. And the term that I came up with: skinheads. If you don’t know anything about skinheads, they're people who shave their heads and dress in a very particular way, and they have some very, very strong ideologies, which many people find unpleasant. And internally, there are these very severe divisions. So there areracist skinheads. There are avowedly nonracist skinheads. You can imagine those two groups of people don’t get along very well at all. So I thought that this would be a great entry to look at, to find out about the breakdown of the Wikipedia. “Skinheads, named after their shaven heads, are members of a subculture that originated in Britain in the 1960s, where they were closely tied to the Rude boy of the West Indies and the Mods of the U.K.” “Categories: There are a number of different ‘types’ . . . .” I started to read this, and a couple of things became clear. First of all, it was really informative. I wasn’t a skinhead expert, despite my haircut. And I didn’t know a lot of this.Second of all, it’s extremely neutral, very fact-based, very kind of sober and mature in its tone. And it’s actually talking about Nazi skinheads right next to the avowedly nonracist, non-Nazi skinheads. But you don’t see the flame war breaking out on these pages, and you don’t see people screaming at each other here. And you go down and you learn why they dress the way they do and where it came from. And it reads to me exactly like a good, professionally edited, professionally generated encyclopedia entry. And I read this and I had no idea how it came about.Then there’s this interesting link up here called “Discussion.” So here’s the link. If I wanted to edit this page right now—bang: I would click here and I could just go to town on this entry. But what’s more interesting is the discussion page. And you look at this, and this is the background to the page where people who feel like it, who are contributing, get to talk about the main page, get to talk about the main entry, and hash out their disagreements.Keep in mind, the folk hashing out the disagreements are neo-Nazi skinheads versus nonracist skinheads versus fashion skinheads. These are not people who get along and play nice. But you read the debate going back and forth and it is an amazingly well-informed, calm, sober, very fact-based debate where they're explicitly not about promoting a point of view. And you start to see abbreviations like “POV.” That means “you’re putting a point of
view in the main encyclopedia entry, which is not what the Wikipedia is all about. Stop it!”
And then the person writes back and goes, “You know, you’re right. I’m sorry. I understand what this thing is about and I’m going to play by the rules.” And I went around and I tried to find the most controversial topics. And this place does a brilliant job of having pretty violent disagreements very, very civilly. So that bore no relation at all to anything that I saw on Ducati but it’s clearly some kind of innovation that is being fostered by new technologies. In this case, the Internet and all the stuff that we’ve put on top of it have allowed these platforms to appear where we communicate. We collaborate with each other. Some of these things form very healthy norms and we start to generate really good content via this spontaneous, volunteer kind of community effort. Nothing to do with what I saw at Ducati, but a really interesting phenomenon going on here. We talk about the blogosphere, which is this universe of blogs that we’re all generating. “Wiki,” which is where the term “Wikipedia” comes from, actually is from the Hawaiian word for “quick.” And it’s just a Web site that doesn’t have a professional staff; that is generated and built over time by the people who actually go and look at it. Now, Wikipedia is the bestknown example there.
So that’s story number two.
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