In October 2006, Wikipedia was the largest volunteer run an online encyclopedia that can be easily read and edited by anyone with access to the Internet. For nearly six years of its founding in 2001, the project has attracted hundreds of thousands of editors who have written more than 1.2 million articles in English only. Nearly 10 percent of worldwide Internet users access to Wikipedia at least once a month. Just as Wales had to retire, editor community gathers reviews to decide whether to close the informal association of editors of Wikipedia called Esperanza. Some editors Wikipedia, including some of the most prolific them, really enjoyed the program. Others firmly believed that Esperanza did editors communicate through the creation of content for the encyclopedia. As editor community to take the final decision on what to do with Esperanza, observers could not help but wonder what effect the decision will have on the types of Wikipedia editors will attract and content they will produce. "Hide
by Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Andreea Gorbatai, Tiona Žužul Source: Harvard Business School 21 pages. Publication Date: May 15, 2012. Prod. #: 712493-PDF-ENG
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