madcow writes “”The secret to the quality of Wikipedia entries is lots of edits by lots of people” says Nature.
“Three groups of researchers claim to have untangled the process by which many Wikipedia entries achieve their impressive accuracy…. They say that the best articles are those that are highly edited by many different contributors.”
“In effect, the Wiki community has mutated since 2001 from an oligarchy to a democracy. The percentage of edits made by the Wikipedia ‘elite’ of administrators increased steadily up to 2004, when it reached around 50%. But since then it has steadily declined, and is now just 10% (and falling).”
Let the wiki wars (re)begin!”
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