Jimmy Wales's Open Source Collaboration Tips

destinyland writes "In a new interview Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales acknowledges his debt to Richard Stallman's Free Software Foundation and discusses his new open source search project. He applauds the way Open Source developers work around their ideological differences, acknowledges that he's an Ayn Rand objectivist who's skeptical of the wisdom of crowds, and blames Slashdot for his grandstanding comment that Wikipedia would bury Encyclopedia Brittanica within five years."

Yeah, well

[User 956]

[He] blames Slashdot for his grandstanding comment that Wikipedia would bury Encyclopedia Brittanica within five years.

Actually, according to Wikipedia, the number of years in which Wikipedia will bury Encyclopedia Brittanica has tripled in the last six months.

Re:Yeah, well

[Trillan]

+{{fact}} :)

Crowds always make good decisions

[andy314159pi]

that he's an Ayn Rand objectivist who's skeptical of the wisdom of crowds

Kill the wise one!

Re:If you don't believe in the wisdom of crowds

[kfg]

. . .you should throw all your money at the stock market

Dude, that's what the crowd does.

KFG

Re:Ayn Rand? The fan dancer?

[Knuckles]

Well, I am hostile to Rand because I read Atlas Shrugged.

Do what I do

[cheezfreek]

When in doubt, blame Slashdot. It's fun for the whole family.

Re:Ayn Rand? The fan dancer?

[CaffeineAddict2001]

You might be an Ayn Rand objectivist if:

You're a brilliant innovator. Really. You'd show us... but we're not worthy of benefiting from your genius.

You replaced your subscription of Penthouse with the Wall Street Journal and read it for the same purpose.

Whenever you visit a national park you lament all the sky scrapers that should have been built there instead.

You day dream about escaping to Galt's Gulch, even though the male\female ratio is something like 10:1. Hey, it worked for the Smurfs.

It takes you 20 minutes to explain to people the concept of "A thing is itself" and wonder why people think you are condescending.

No Sight of the Cite of the site

[The Monster]

A link may not be a guarantee but stubborn refusal to provide a reference of any kind is suspicious and rightfully so, because the number one cause of that is if you're pulling it out of your ass.

In fact, this is true 72.45% of the time according to a recent survey [citation needed].