back - YOU TELL ME - 01/11/07

Question: What is Wikinomics? Is it a book about Wikipedia? You mentioned it in your last Web and I was just curious.

Answer: Healthy curiosity. No, the book I sought and was found for me as efficiently as I narrated there is not about Wikipedia but simply about Wiki. That is, about the work method that Wikipedia has popularised with its team and its name, and which rules de field in many ways. The work between many people connected through Internet. For instance, the census of all the galaxies, which no astronomer and no observatory could carry out on their own is now being made globally through amateurs with home telescopes who go on taking down there findings and filing their results. Its four principles are: openness (as against secret), peering (as against authority), sharing (as against monopolising), and acting globally (as against being insular). I dream of the Church’s government being that way. It’s only a dream. Wikivatican.