Julia Angwin and Geoffrey A. Fowler are reporting in the Wall Street Journal that many Wikipedia volunteers are leaving in record number. Increasing layers of bureaucracy and fatigue over fighting are cited as possible reasons. From the article:
“People generally have this idea that the wisdom of crowds is a pixie dust that you sprinkle on a system and magical things happen,” says Aniket Kittur, an assistant professor of human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon University who has studied Wikipedia and other large online community projects.
Additional coverage on Slashdot. Thanks to Brian Lamb for the link.
