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Time: Is Wikipedia a Victim of Its Own Success?

went live on January 15, 2001 but the future of the user authored, free global encyclopedia may not be as bright as it enters another decade – TIME: “Michael Snow, the foundation’s chairman, says he’s got a “fair amount of confidence” that Wikipedia will go on. It remains a precious resource — a completely free journal available to anyone and the model for a mode of online collaboration once hailed as revolutionary. Still, Wikipedia’s troubles suggest the limits of Web 2.0 — that when an idealized community gets too big, it starts becoming dysfunctional. Just like every other human organization.”

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