In September of 2006 I still had hopes that the Citizendium project would absorb the lessons of Wikipedia's mistakes and be able to profit from them. With that in mind, I made an attempt to summarize what I had learned from my own experience with the imminently bad example supplied by Wikipedia, setting out my conclusions as a list of critical make-or-break points for the design of any future project of this kind.
For now I'll just refer to my original postings on these "breakpoints", hoping for a chance to flesh them out later.
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I'd say that the anonymity - really a lack of barriers to contribution - helped get Wikipedia off the ground in the first place. Plus, the anonymity wasn't detrimental in any way at the beginning because the system wasn't worth gaming or attacking - Wikipedia was too obscure.
QUOTE(jonnystalked @ Mon 22nd November 2010, 11:54pm)
I'd say that the anonymity — really a lack of barriers to contribution — helped get the KKK off the ground in the first place. Plus, the anonymity wasn't detrimental in any way at the beginning because the system wasn't worth gaming or attacking — the KKK was too obscure.
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