Anda pernah mendengar Wikipedia? Yaitu sebuah kamus online besar yang isinya jutaan artikel tentang segala macam. Saya berlangganan Harvard Business Working Knowledge lewat RSS dan mendapati pembicaraan tentang wikipedia:
An ongoing tension within Wikipedia is characterized as the inclusionists versus the exclusionists. The inclusionists argue that one of Wikipedia’s core values is that it should be open to all ideas, that truth emerges from a variety of directions. Better to include than exclude. The exclusionists see Wikipedia’s utilitarianism diminished if too much froth clouds the valuable information inside.
“There is always a tendency in communities or in any social organization to have this boundary and say in or out,” Lakhani says. “This might be happening in isolated places inside Wikipedia. The tension that they need to deal with is how to keep it as porous as possible.”
Porous is good, says Lakhani, because most content on Wikipedia appears to originate at the fringes of the community from anonymous or infrequent contributors. (A central core of about 1,200 volunteers refines the pieces over time and generally tends the Wikipedia garden.) If exclusionists began to make it more difficult for outside contributions to populate Wikipedia, the product’s secret sauce could be spoiled.
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