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https://150sec.com/wikipedia-is-a-broken-system-says-co-founder-larry-sanger/11453/amp/#click=https://t.co/e44AhAG4ge

“Wikipedia is a broken system,” says co-founder Larry Sanger

Image courtesy of Deposit Photos.

Reading a Wikipedia entry about Wikipedia itself seems strange. But where
else on the web would an average internet user go for digestible,
encyclopedia-style content?

With its entries almost always topping Google search results, Wikipedia
receives around 33 billion page views per month, according to studies
carried out by thinktank Pew Research in 2016. In line with statistics
from the website itself, it also changes at a rate of 1.8 edits per second
and the number of new articles per day averages 578.

The multilingual free online encyclopedia was established in 2001 by Jimmy
Wales and Larry Sanger, originally under the name of Nupedia. It is now
the fifth most popular website in the world.
Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger. Image courtesy of LinkedIn.

150Sec spoke to one of Wikipedia’s original co-founders, Sanger who —
despite leaving the project in 2002 — shared his thoughts on online
knowledge platforms on today’s internet, ahead of this month’s
Pioneers conference in Austria.

As an open source, Wikipedia can be added to or edited by anyone in the
world through knowledge base websites called wikis, which allow users to
collaboratively modify content. However, Sanger claims that this has
become one of Wikipedia’s biggest downfalls.

In its early days, “Wikipedia itself had special challenges,” he
explained. “One was simply to teach everyone who arrived at the wiki,
which was basically a blank bulletin board that could have become whatever
we wanted it to become, that we intended to build an encyclopedia. A lot
of people didn’t seem to know what that meant, or maybe they just
didn’t care,” he said.

“Wikipedia itself had special challenges,” Larry Sanger, Wikipedia
co-founder.

“Another hurdle was to figure out how to rein in the bad actors so that
they did not ruin the project for everyone else. Unfortunately, we never
did come up with a good solution for that one,” Sanger added.

“Wikipedia is a broken system as a result,” he said.

It is this flaw that has earned Wikipedia its reputation as an often
untrustworthy source of information, particularly during times of
discussion around misinformation and ‘fake news,’ a term which Sanger
finds problematic.

“Almost immediately [the term ‘fake news’] began to be applied to
merely biased and badly-sourced news by otherwise responsible journalists.
The phrase is used as if everyone agreed on which news is “fake” or
what counts as “misinformation,” when, of course, people differ on
precisely what news is reliable and authentic,” he pointed out.

This level of subjectivity is also what creates problems with the concept
of crowd intelligence, which poses another problem for sites such as
Wikipedia, Sanger argues.

Crowd intelligence “represents just one approach to each topic,”
Sanger told 150Sec.

“This problem was supposed to be solved by Wikipedia’s neutrality
policy, but Wikipedia has long since decided to turn the other cheek when
influential editors make articles speak with one point of view, when they
dismiss unpopular views, or when they utterly fail to do justice to
alternative approaches to a topic.”

The solution to this, Sanger proposes, is through blockchain, which is
partly why he joined Everipedia, the world’s first blockchain
encyclopedia, in 2017.

“The solution to this… is through blockchain”

Born out of the need to broaden the spectrum of opinion and create a more
wide-reaching system, Everipedia allows for fairness and mutual agreement
before the site is updated, thanks to its blockchain decentralized system,
Sanger said.

“Since last July, every edit to Everipedia has had to be approved by the
community of IQ token-holders,” he told 150Sec. “IQ” is the
Everipedia token, or cryptocurrency. If someone uploads nonsense or
copyrighted text, we downvote it. This already provides for a layer of
editorial oversight that Wikipedia lacks.”

Decentralized knowledge sharing and building, he believes, is the future
of online encyclopedias.

“We have barely even started to explore what will be possible when there
is no centralized control of editorial policy, when editorial decisions
are made according to various smart contract-driven systems, and when
participation in the system is remunerated by the system itself.”

The question, however, remains whether removing the human element and
transferring encyclopedic editorial control to blockchain technology will
be the solution to the problems Wikipedia has historically faced.

For Sanger, at least, the prospect is “exciting.”
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 by: trw - Sat, 25 May 2019 20:34 UTC

>Decentralized knowledge sharing and building, he believes, is the future
of online encyclopedias.

Couldn't agree more to that one...not sure if blockchain should be the solution...but interesting article anyway

cheers

trw
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