The Social end Technological innovation of Wikipedia


	The Social end Technological innovation of Wikipedia

f_pereztrejo

2-16-2007 2:41 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/cbf8efc7-7d90-4c3c-920b-6c06d3a462fe/7E6E3DFE-583F-4343-885E-A1FA8415A2E4/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://3form.org/blog/?p=24" href="http://3form.org/blog/?p=24" style="font-size: 11px;">3form.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://3form.org/blog/?p=24"><H2><A title="Permanent%20Link:%20Was%20Wikipedia%20innovation%20entirely%20social?" rel="bookmark" href="http://3form.org/blog/?p=24">Was Wikipedia innovation entirely social?</A></H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://3form.org/blog/?p=24"><P>Jimmy Wales, a founder of Wikipedia in <A href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4989081230663871896">his</A> <A href="http://webcast.oii.ox.ac.uk/?view=Webcast%26ID=20050711_76">recent</A> <A href="http://www.ourmedia.org/node/46790">talks</A> <A href="http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=459">suggests</A> that Wikipedia is not a technological innovation, but a purely social one:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://3form.org/blog/?p=24"><P>Jimmy Wales might be right suggesting that Wikipedia was a social rather then technological innovation, but the technology he refers to was not there in 1995. The features that made Wikipedia possible were added to UseModWiki approximately at the same time the Wikipedia was launched and began to use UseModWiki. It might be a lucky coincidence for Wikipedia or those might be new features of UseModWiki requested by founders of Wikipedia. Maybe some of them can comment on this post.
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