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by cratermoon 1723 days ago
It was never and can never be sustainable to depend on a small number of super-contributors for a "crowd-sourced" knowledge store.

Maybe the Wikimedia Foundation should focus more on attracting and keeping a broader range and number of contributors instead of curating few it considered "good".
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bawolff 1723 days ago
Why not? That's how the rest of the world works. Almost every human endeavour forms a small world graph.
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cratermoon 1723 days ago
How's that working out?
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bawolff 1723 days ago
Decently well? Society has its problems, but its had some pretty cool accomplishments along the way.

More to the point, i think your argument would be more compelling if you had some examples of non-"small world graph" endeavours that worked out well. I'd love for some experiments, but i think we need some succesful experiments before saying that its a better model.

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cratermoon 1721 days ago
> Decently well?

There are millions of oppressed, desperately poor, and disadvantage people who would scoff at that assessment.

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