On 05/09/06, SJ <2.718281828(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Aaron Swartz has started a series of such essays. The
latest one
suggests something I have long suspected, that the huge body of new
and anonymous contributors, who often make the first serious stab at
an article or provide a needed injection of expertise, are as
important to the 'pedias development (if not more so) than the core of
dedicated editors.
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/wikiroads
http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/whowriteswikipedia
Greg Maxwell is sceptical of the numbers (since Aaron doesn't give
methodology); since Greg is very good at running interesting numbers
on the database, I've suggested to each that they contact the other.
Is anyone else writing long essays these days? Where
are they kept,
and how categorized?
Probably and nowhere I can think of, but they should!
- d.