I found this experiment with Wikipedia that Krishna did and documented. It is not something new, there have been previous experiments, but I liked his take on it. The experiment he did was to make two changes, one factual and the other more theoretical. [Continue]
Jimmy Wales - the man behind one of the biggest crowdsourcing experiments - now wants to extend it to search (via TechCrunch). Mr Wales aims to exploit the same network of followers and the same type of free software to create his search engine. “Essentially, if you consider one of the basic tasks of a search engine, it is to make a decision: ‘this page is good, this page sucks’,†Mr Wales said. [Continue]
Ethan Zuckerman has a report on the discussion about What can Wikipedia learn from F/OSS. For some reason, the discussions seems to be more about comparisons between the two. In my opinion, the better way would have been to look at merits of one and try to incorporate in the other - if the aim was to learn from. [Continue]