[Sig-bwp] "The Hive" (_Atlantic Monthly_ Article About Wikipedia)

[Gerry Mckiernan]

Colleagues/

There is an outstanding (and lengthy) article in the current issue (September 2006) of the _Atlantic Monthly_ about Wikipedia

"The Hive"
Can thousands of Wikipedians be wrong? How an attempt to build an online encyclopedia touched off history’s biggest experiment in collaborative knowledge

"Wikipedia has the potential to be the greatest effort in collaborative knowledge gathering the world has ever known, and it may well be the greatest effort in voluntary collaboration of any kind."

[ http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200609/wikipedia ]

Enjoy!

/Gerry 

Gerry McKiernan
Science and technology Librarian
Iowa State University Library 
Ames IA 50011

gerrymck at iastate.edu