Writing, the Wiki Way

The Wikipedia is powerful. It's huge. It's free. Information by the people, for the people. It's all that. Or is it? What about all the spammers and vandals and misinformed? Can it really be self-policing? Let's do an experiment!

Oh, wait. A.J. Jacobs, a writer for Esquire magazine, already did.

With consent of the Wikipedia administrators, he submitted a draft of an article about Wikipedia to the site and instructed the community to edit it and the results would be used in the magazine.

Wow! Over 373 edits in the first 48 hours. The original article was poorly written and included factual errors. The final version is a much better read. And look through some of the discussion that took place during editing.

Wikipedia is cool. Posted by Chris on 9/30/2005 01:12:00 PM :: Permalink   
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