wikipedia is public scholarship with fewer or perhaps more guardians. It still requires skills to write a good entry but the dinosaurs of academia are not in the way meaning the snobs quotient is lower. It is also much cheaper than a course at school. I suppose a page and the edits could be modelled as turns in a game theory model. but quantifying wikipedia content is going to be like Leibniz's algebra of life perhaps impossible. See Berlinski, David the Advent of the Algorithm (New York: Harcourt, 2000) and others on similar themes. Peter Timusk, B.Math statistics (2002), B.A. legal studies (2006) Carleton University Systems Science Graduate student, University of Ottawa (2006-2007). just trying to stay linear. Read by hundreds of lurkers every week. On 27-Mar-07, at 10:39 PM, Jimmy Wales wrote:
Wikis introduce some great benefits for the creation of a less hostile social environment. Flaming comments can be easily hidden by other community members before they cause a general flame war. Editors can be banned by the community in a transparent and open way. Pages can be temporarily locked to allow for a cooling down period.