Quote #59
Wiki helped define the category of social software.
More from Ward Cunningham
- Top down hierarchies make communication work when it is expensive, I hope that wiki can be a flagship in this move in the industry to produ…
- Global collaboration is something that Wiki mastered in a small way and here we can master it in a big way.
- People can and do trust works produced by people they don't know. The real world is still trying to figure out how Wikipedia works. A fanta…
- People who understand their collective goals and values are pretty good at self-organizing -- as long as they are allowed to.
- The web has been an experiment in anonymity. Conscious design of low level protocols. Lots of identity infrastructure has been created to m…
- Accept that you've got a common goal that we're all working towards and that we're working towards the same goal. In other words, align and…
- Anonymity relieves refactoring friction. Have learned that people want to sign things. But try to write in a way where you don't have to kn…
- Before wikis, computer writing was all about the words. The computer could help you type them, spell them, hyphenate them, size them, shape…