Friday, June 8, 2007

Jimmy Wales: Don’t Design Communities Around Worst Possible Behavior

Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales says people often create social rules for community projects by assuming the worst behavior among the community participants. He presents an interesting analogy why we shouldn’t do so [WMV].

This bit is part of a larger interview Jimmy did with Mario Sixtus of the Elektrischer Reporter video blog. Other topics covered include:

• The rules to create a good community (like a good community police: guard against “muggers” but also allow dissent and protest)
• Why Wikinews didn’t take off so far (it has a big competitor when it comes to current news events: Wikipedia)
• Wikipedia and the lack of advertisement
• Why he really dislikes the term “crowdsourcing”
• Jimmy’s new search engine project (which is in its “very early design stages,” Jimmy says)
• Why Jimmy thinks software patents pose a “threat to creativity”

[Video Creative Commons licensed.]

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