Comments on: When the digital divide meets Wikipedia http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2006/08/when-the-digital-divide-meets-wikipedia/ A weblog for staff and students of the Media department at the London School of Economics Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:08:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: …My heart’s in Accra » links for 2006-09-05 http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2006/08/when-the-digital-divide-meets-wikipedia/#comment-8238 …My heart’s in Accra » links for 2006-09-05 Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:21:20 +0000 http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2006/08/when-the-digital-divide-meets-wikipedia/#comment-8238 [...] Media @ LSE Group Weblog ? Blog Archive ? When the digital divide meets Wikipedia David Brake raises some interesting concerns about quality control in small Wikipedias and the difficulties of digital and language divides in building smaller language wikipedias (tags: africa wikipedia globalization ict4d) [...] [...] Media @ LSE Group Weblog ? Blog Archive ? When the digital divide meets Wikipedia David Brake raises some interesting concerns about quality control in small Wikipedias and the difficulties of digital and language divides in building smaller language wikipedias (tags: africa wikipedia globalization ict4d) [...]

]]> By: Alex H. http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2006/08/when-the-digital-divide-meets-wikipedia/#comment-7738 Alex H. Sun, 27 Aug 2006 03:59:05 +0000 http://groupblog.workasone.net/archives/2006/08/when-the-digital-divide-meets-wikipedia/#comment-7738 I think a lot of Wikipedians see the OLPC project as a potential source of <i>editors</i> as much as consumers. Certainly, while it is a sample of one, Wikipedia was once at a scale similar to that of some of the newer language groups, as was (for example) German. While there is good reason to be concerned about quality, I think there is some optomism in that so far the language groups have continued to increase in quality as they grew. I think a lot of Wikipedians see the OLPC project as a potential source of editors as much as consumers.

Certainly, while it is a sample of one, Wikipedia was once at a scale similar to that of some of the newer language groups, as was (for example) German. While there is good reason to be concerned about quality, I think there is some optomism in that so far the language groups have continued to increase in quality as they grew.

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