Marshall
Poe discussed in his article "The Hive" the most popular online
encyclopedia which is Wikipedia. Wikipedia is in
the right way to be the greatest effort in collaborative knowledge gathering
the world, and the greatest effort in voluntary collaboration of any kind.
In the last few years Wikipedia has known a huge
growth; it includes a million pages in the English language combined. Because
of this growth the website made many changes to its original rules, the first is
that anyone can post and the second is that the content is free to anyone. However,
now according to Poe, the poster can be moderated. But, Wikipedia is still a good
example of the new way that Internet allows users to collaborate for a greater good. As Marshall said the popularity if Wikipedia
is due to the effort made by Wales who
Wales found that the efficient way of creating a free encyclopedia was through
volunteer contribution.
