Atlantic on Wikipedia
I forgot to mention this piece in The Atlantic Monthly by Marhsall Poe (The Hive). Poe, by the way, was so captured by the wiki concept, he started his own wiki project called MemoryArchive. An excerpt from his piece:
Wikipedia has the potential to be the greatest effort in collaborative knowledge gathering the world has ever known, and it may well be the greatest effort in voluntary collaboration of any kind.
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They also searched the Web for material they could use to expand my one-line biography. After they were done, the Marshall Poe entry was two paragraphs long and included a good bibliography. Now that’s wiki magic.
This piece, along with the New Yorker piece in July by Stacy Schiff (Know It All), give some of the best reporting on the Wikipedia phenomenon so far. Good historical perspective in both.
Some areas that have not been written about much - the dynamics of edit wars, how community consensus is reached and how new policy is proposed and decided. I hope to address these things in my book about Wikipedia.
