Limits of self-organization: Peer production and "laws of quality"
October 28, 2006 - 21:07 — gbc
| Publication Type | Journal Article | |
| Year of Publication | 2006 | |
| Authors | Duguid, P. | |
| Journal Title | First Monday | |
| Journal Date | 10/2006 | |
| Volume | 11 | |
| Issue | 10 | |
| Abstract | People often implicitly ascribe the quality of peer-production projects such as Project Gutenberg or Wikipedia to what I call "laws" of quality. These are drawn from Open Source software development and it is not clear how applicable they are outside the realm of software. I look at examples from peer production projects to ask whether faith in these laws does not so much guarantee quality as hide the need for improvement. | |
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