(2010-09-12) Dash Linus Git Fork Meta

Anil Dash ponders the Culture of the Fork, as reinvigorated by Linus Torvald's Git. One of the best ways for Wikipedia to reinvigorate itself, and to break away from the stultifying and arcane editing discussions that are its worst feature, could be to embrace the idea that there's not One True Version of every Wikipedia article. Some interesting comments, re Wisdom Of Crowds.