Wikipedia’s triumph and the rise of crowdsourcing
February 14, 2010
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Wikipedia, the fifth highest rated website in the world, came under fire when Felipe Ortega, from a University in Madrid, claimed that it had lost 49,000 editors in the first three months of 2009. Just months after it had publically called for thousands of volunteer editors, this appeared to spell the end of the crowd sourcing phenomenon.
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