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I took the above picture at Wikimania 2009 in Buenos Aires. It’s of Micah Alpern giving a talk entitled, “Designing a large scale community moderation system for Yahoo! Answers.” Micah, now at LinkedIn, was the design lead for Yahoo! Answers, and at the time, he was still at Yahoo!. As you can see from my annotations, Jimmy [...]
Come to WikiSym 2005 on October 16-18 in San Diego, California. Held in conjunction with OOPSLA, it’s shaping up to be an excellent conference. Along with usual suspects (Ward Cunningham, Jimmy Wales), Robert Haas, the former U.S. poet laureate, is keynoting. I’ll be moderating a panel on “Wikis in the Consumer Enterprise,” with Joe Kraus, [...]
A suggestion for Jimmy Wales‘s list of things that need to be free: Free identity! (JNG) “Free” in this case has a different meaning than it does than it does with the other items on Jimbo’s list. We need to free our digital identities from the organizational silos that currently collect and control information [...]
Thoughts on Jimmy Wales‘s keynote at Wikimania. Read Ross Mayfield‘s post for a more extensive summary: (JN8) “1. Free the encyclopedia!” Jimbo considers the English and German Wikipedias “done,” and he expects the rest to be complete in about 10 years. His metric is 250,000 pages of content. (JN9) “3. Free the curriculum!” [...]
