22
Mar
How wikipedia prevents 99% of its users from participating
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Jason Calcalis, has another interesting post on how does wikipedia prevent most of its user base from participating.

1. Wikipedia pages have become increasingly complex and Wikipedia doesn’t support a WYSIWYG editor.
2. The Wikipedia uses “Discussion pages” to reach consensus, and these pages are also coded in mediaWiki so that 99% of people can’t figure them out.
3. The Wikipeda uses IRC chat, which 99% of folks don’t know how to use,

Personally I don’t think it must have been a strategy from Wikipedia, just that it evolved this way.
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