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  1. In Wikipedia, consensus was once pursued on email lists. But since many users didn't use the lists, these discussions moved to wiki (WR 95)6:33 AM Jul 13th from mobile web
  2. In Wikipedia, any admin can lock down or "protect" an article to quell an edit war (WR 95).6:25 AM Jul 13th from mobile web
  3. "To emphasize humility," Wikipedia sysops were told "May you wield the mop and bucket with equanimity" (WR 94)6:21 AM Jul 13th from mobile web
  4. "More comm. channels lead to more partitioning and a greater chance of forming disconneccted cliques" (WR89)6:13 AM Jul 13th from mobile web
  5. Wikipedia community adopted chat when it became inefficient to just leave massages on talk pages (WR89)6:11 AM Jul 13th from mobile web
  6. Wikipedia grew to 20k articles in first year (WR 76)5:56 AM Jul 13th from mobile web
  7. I just don't get why there isn't a less buggy WYSIWYG editor for MediaWiki than FCKeditor. This would help capture more senior contributors.7:52 AM Jul 10th from web
  8. @Sunir ....so how can leaders of Web2.0 sites find out when potential contributors have this epiphany?7:45 AM Jul 10th from web
  9. @Sunir ...so the best time to engage a potential contributor of a W2.0 site is right when he sees the "truth" of the site's potential....7:40 AM Jul 10th from web
  10. @fuzheado Loved Wikipedia Revolution! I'm evangelizing it to others at wiki.familysearch.org & using it to anticipate our development. Thx!11:27 AM Jul 9th from web
  11. @twitter Porn accounts are spamming my Followers list. I want an option to suppress followers' pics on my Followers page.8:02 AM Jul 8th from web
  12. "Every artist was first an amateur" - Ralph Waldo Emerson6:32 AM Jul 8th from mobile web
  13. Wikipedia founders got much of their ideas about policy and governance from MeatballWiki, where sociology is 1st and tech is 2nd (WR60)6:31 AM Jul 8th from mobile web
  14. Sunir Shah created MeatballWiki to talk about meta issues of online community6:26 AM Jul 8th from mobile web
  15. Ward Cunningham's Wiki Wiki Web became the place for programmers to document patterns: oft-reused sections of code (WR 59)6:24 AM Jul 8th from mobile web
  16. To increase authoring scalability, lower the bar for contributors and simplify the authoring/editing process.6:08 AM Jul 8th from mobile web
  17. Nupedia's 7-step writing process resulted in only 24 finished articles the first year (WR 41)6:05 AM Jul 8th from mobile web
  18. Nupedians strove to create articles a college student could understand without previous background on the subject (WR 39)6:02 AM Jul 8th from mobile web
  19. Division of labor: In Wikipedia and Nupedia, editors and subject matter experts are 2 differentt things6:00 AM Jul 8th from mobile web
  20. In Nupedia, three people were needed for an active subject (WR 38)5:58 AM Jul 8th from mobile web
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