Both sides of any topic - particularly controversial ones - would receive "press" space on the article. Secondly, articles would not be signed by a single author, but instead formed through a collaboration of many authors - without a single one receiving credit for it. The belief was that ultimately, such a collaborative article would evolve into a singular version of collective truth about any topic.
Whether that has held true remains debatable. You can see from his memoir that Larry struggled mightily with people sabotaging the process to keep their version of a topic published. He describes dealing with countless "trolls" and others that would manipulate pages against Wikipedia policies 2.
It is a part of the "collaborative editing" process that remains a constant challenge for Wikipedia, even today. The process eventually worked out would flow like this; volunteer contributors would submit articles to the "Nupedia Advisory Board", where it would go through a seven step process of review before anything would get published the the encyclopedia. This was the first stage of a process that would go through many iterations, as those developing the system saw how the system was broken.
The first article made it through the system in July of By the end of , only 25 articles had been published, and nearly were still in the process of review. In parallel to this process, Jimmy launched Wikipedia as a place where "non-approved" contributor articles would be published while in queue for publication in Nupedia.
This is where the system appeared to split. Upon its launch, Wikipedia exploded. This explosion forced Larry to spend more and more time maintaining and developing Wikipedia - not to mention managing the growing volume of content - and less time on the Nupedia project. Larry explained the situation as follows:. In , I was both chief organizer of Wikipedia and editor-in-chief of Nupedia - and my own slowing work on Nupedia was obvious to all active Nupedia contributors.
It might be better to say that Nupedia withered due to neglect However, the growth of Wikipedia couldn't be denied. By January of there were articles, and by May - only 3 months later - the site had published 3, Wikipedia articles. Every one of those articles was always being edited and updated by new users. The unexpected, rapid growth of the user base and published articles came from the "Google-effect". Essentially, as Google crawled Wikipedia articles and displayed the results to users of the search engine, it attracted more users.
While there is nothing special about that - after all, that's how it works for all websites - for Wikipedia it was a little bit different. More users meant more articles, and more articles meant more search engine results, which brought in even more users. It was a snowball effect that would send Wikipedia traffic - and content volume - into the stratosphere.
With that volume, came a nightmare scenario for Larry - how to deal with so many Internet trolls and anarchists that threatened to upset the accuracy of the content, and threatened the very values that the project was originally built upon. The conflict that arose, according to Larry, drove away "more valuable contributors".
Short of removing the problem contributors altogether - which we did only in the very worst cases - there was no easy solution, under the system as we had set it up. In , Larry was laid off as the entire tech bubble burst, but remained active in the project until , when he left the project entirely based on what he called, " The problems that Wikipedia faces are part of what every website on the Internet today faces - how to censor unacceptable or offensive content, without actually censoring information.
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