http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/05/wikifailure_1.html The Law, the Universe, and Everything Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:33:39 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://www.concurringopinions.com/archives/2007/05/wikifailure_1.html/comment-page-1#comment-53902 James Grimmelmann Mon, 14 May 2007 21:21:31 +0000 http://www.solove.org/archives/2007/05/wiki-failure.html#comment-53902 More than technologies, communities matter. We know from studies of open source that people will contribute when they can affirm their membership in a community of contributors by doing so. Wikpedia caught on, so people contribute to Wikipedia, in a virtuous cycle. I don't think there was anything wrong with your project other than that it didn't catch on, which became a self-fulfilling prophecy. More than technologies, communities matter. We know from studies of open source that people will contribute when they can affirm their membership in a community of contributors by doing so. Wikpedia caught on, so people contribute to Wikipedia, in a virtuous cycle. I don’t think there was anything wrong with your project other than that it didn’t catch on, which became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

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