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Clash of the encyclopedias: is competition good for sharing?
Brianna Laugher
October 22, 2010
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Clash of the encyclopedias: is competition good for sharing?
Presented at SHARISM Forum, 2010.
Brianna Laugher
October 22, 2010
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Clash Encyclopedias Is competition good for sharing? Brianna Laugher *
SHARISM of the
“There's, in fact, no reason for China to use Wikipedia,
a service based 'out there'. It's very natural for China to make its own products.” – Baidu's William Chang
“[I]t's very easy for overseas Chinese to accept Hudong.com as
the 'Wikipedia of China.' […] We think we understand the Chinese language and people better than Wikipedia. We believe we can do a better job.” – Hudong's Haidong Pan
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1. Hudong 2. English Wikipedia 3. Baidu Baike 4. German
Wikipedia … Chinese Wikipedia World's largest wikis
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[insert Hudong edit button here]
fragmentation of effort vs competition is healthy ?
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Unique Selling Proposition
5P 五大支柱
WP:NOT 百科
永乐大典 1408
古今圖書集成 1725
NPOV 中立
not the “middle” or moderate position an overview of all
positions
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free content 开放 ( 自由內容 )
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a free content license is...
protection for the community
an invitation for everyone else
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AGF 互重
IAR 无权威
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protection for the community
the right to fork!
… in case the administrators become jerks
.... in case the community becomes divided about which direction
to go
… in case the owners decide it's no longer “financially
viable”
… in case the owners abandon the project
no one knows everything, but everyone knows something
no one owns any particular thing, but everyone owns everything
Competition from within?
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the argument for free culture always needs to include FREEDOM!
• Title picture “Fight on snow” from http://www.flickr.com/photos/63766699@N00/225701 1693 by
Suneko, licensed CC-BY-SA. • Logos and screenshots © respective owners • Globe from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Globe_Eurasia.svg by Ssolbergj, licensed GFDL • Map of China from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blank_map_of_china.svg by historicair, licensed CC-BY-SA • Graph of Chinese Wikipedia block from "Group Size and Incentives to Contribute: A Natural Experiment at Chinese Wikipedia" by Xiaoquan (Michael) Zhang and Feng Zhu, published in the American Economic Review. • Chinese encyclopedia images public domain, from Wikimedia Commons • Nobel image from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alfred_Nobel_mirrored.png by Aushulz, released into the public domain • WikiReader photos from http://www.flickr.com/photos/pfctdayelise/sets/72157625071914527/ by me :) licensed CC-BY-SA • Protective vest icon from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:D-M015.svg by Epop, released into the public domain • Wikipe-tan with Chinese 'welcome' sign from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wikipe-tan_holding_a_welcome_sign_cropped_%28simp by Leon3289, licensed CC-BY-SA. • PediaPress book stack from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pedia-bunch-2.jpg by Notafish, licensed CC-BY-SA. • Riot drawing public domain, from Wikimedia Commons Credits
thanks! brianna@modernthings.org [[user:pfctdayelise]] (but you can call me 罗碧琴 :))
brianna.laugher.id.au/blog/ © Brianna Laugher, licensed CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted.