What is the magic that makes Wikipedia so antifragile?
- What is the magic that makes Wikipedia so antifragile?
- Within itself it has a single namespace: there's only one article titled Barack Obama.
- That means that the collaborators who choose to work on that article need to come to a mutually agreeable balance point on that one scarce Barack Obama article.
- People care about what Wikipedia's Barack Obama article says because Wikipedia has earned the credibility for being a balanced, coherent place with norms that reward alignment on ground-truthed facts.
- People care about what Wikipedia says because other people care about what Wikipedia says.
- It's a fully emergent process born out of swarms of human intention that has at its core a kind of inherent scarcity and buttressing network effects.