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"Those who are wringing their hands over Wikipedia are those committed to the idea of some uncomplicated ‘truth” he said, going on to characterize the early controversy between Britannica and Wikipedia as “an anguish regarding authority … that there are no guarantees to truth.”

"“Learning” no longer means sitting passively in a lecture hall or on in front of a television or in a library and waiting to receive the “authoritative” version of what the experts think is up as if it were a Communion wafer."

"The results of these collaborations, like Wikipedia, represent not just new methods of packaging knowledge, but a new vision of what might come to be meant by “knowledge”"

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" Most significantly, users can “look under the hood” of Wikipedia in order to investigate the controversial or doubtful aspects of any given subject."

"By empowering readers and observers with transparent access to the means by which conclusions are reached, rather than assembling them in an audience to hear the Authorities deliver the catechism from on high, we are all of us becoming scientists in this way, entering into a democracy of the intellect that is already bearing spectacular fruit, not just at Wikipedia but through any number of collaborative projects, from the Gutenberg Project to Tor to Linux."

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"There is a bogglingly complex and well-staffed system for dealing with errors and disputes on Wikipedia. There are special tools provided to volunteers for preventing vandalism, decreasing administrative workload and so on: rollbacker, autopatroller and the like. Then there are nearly two thousand administrators, who are empowered to “protect, delete and restore pages, move pages over redirects, hide and delete page revisions, and block other editors.”"

"At its core, Jaron’s piece defends the traditional role of the independent author, particularly the hierarchy that renders readers as passive recipients of an author’s wisdom. Jaron is fundamentally resistant to the new emerging sense of the author as moderator — someone able to marshal “the wisdom of the network.”"

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"so far as general accuracy of content is concerned, Wikipedia is comparable to conventionally compiled encyclopedias, including Britannica."

“Wikipedia is an excellent tool for leading you to more information. It is a step along the way, and it is extremely valuable.”

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"Even if the signal-to-noise ratio never improves—which I think it will, by the way—that's an awful lot of good material. I'm confident that in the end, individual pieces will fail but the model will succeed."

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"I think half of the people signed up are trying to pull a scam," says one requester who asked not to be identified. "There really needs to be a way to kick people off the island."

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"In the last year or two the trend has been to remove the scent of people, so as to come as close as possible to simulating the appearance of content emerging out of the Web as if it were speaking to us as a supernatural oracle. This is where the use of the Internet crosses the line into delusion."

"t's safer to be the aggregator of the collective. You get to include all sorts of material without committing to anything."

"The hive mind should be thought of as a tool. Empowering the collective does not empower individuals — just the reverse is true. There can be useful feedback loops set up between individuals and the hive mind, but the hive mind is too chaotic to be fed back into itself."

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CS\: COLLECTIVE MAKES CHEAPER FOR GOOD OR BAD

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CS\: COLLECTIVE MAKES CHEAPER FOR GOOD OR BAD

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"Menashe was interested in about four shots, so for Harmel, this could be a sale worth $600."
"The same day, Menashe licensed 56 pictures through iStockphoto—for about $1 each."

"For Harmel, the harsh economics lesson was clear: The product Harmel offers is no longer scarce"

"I can't point to iStockphoto and say it's the culprit, but it has definitely put downward pressure on prices."

"It's also not a bad deal for the companies that can turn to the crowd to help curb the rising cost of corporate research."

"Gupta turns his laptop around to show me a flowchart on his screen. "This is what we were paying $2,000 for. But this one," he says, "was authored by one of our Turkers." I ask how much he paid. His answer: "Five dollars.""

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" But at the layer of popurls, the ice cream story and the Javanese earthquake are at best equals, without context or authorship."

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"Accuracy in a text is not enough. A desirable text is more than a collection of accurate references. It is also an expression of personality."

"When you see the context in which something was written and you know who the author was beyond just a name, you learn so much more than when you find the same text placed in the anonymous, faux-authoritative, anti-contextual brew of the Wikipedia. "

"Without an independent press, composed of heroic voices, the collective becomes stupid and unreliable, as has been demonstrated in many historical instances."

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"And that is part of the larger pattern of the appeal of a new online collectivism that is nothing less than a resurgence of the idea that the collective is all-wise, that it is desirable to have influence concentrated in a bottleneck that can channel the collective with the most verity and force."

"What we are witnessing today is the alarming rise of the fallacy of the infallible collective. Numerous elite organizations have been swept off their feet by the idea. "

"Every individual who is afraid to say the wrong thing within his or her organization is safer when hiding behind a wiki or some other Meta aggregation ritual.  "