[Wikipedia-l] Wikipedia's Success Factors

Sun Apr 23 09:45:15 UTC 2006

Wikipedia: Success factors

Wikipedia's success mainly depend on its users - the Wikipedians. In
theory, everybody can be a Wikipedian. This thread is supposed to find
out if the theory holds true in practice.

The idea is that the Wiki-community of Wikipedians is a special group
of people, who have special characteristcs. To account for these
special characteristics, I have provided the following Factor
Model:

User factors: - Openness - Neutrality -
Flat hierarchy- Computer Skills - Motivation - 

Knowledge factors: - Tacit & Explicit knowledge - Fast changing rate - Peer
review

Technology factors: - Easy usability - Fast access - Infinite reach,
multilingual - Flexible structure - Safe

All these factors play together to accomplish the goal of succesful
knowledge creation and knowledge sharing.

See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Success_factors

Comments, feedback and own ideas are very welcome! 
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