In The 7 th post of Web 2.0 for Dummies I described Wikipedia. This post is dedicated to collaborators types named according to Sergio Leone 's famous film from 1966 The Good the Bad and the Ugly . The Good Most of community collaborators are included in this type: people who are trying to contribute to community project. Wikipedia's assumption as well as other Web 2.0 project assumption is that community members will contribute to the shared project according to the policy, guidelines and processes which were defined. In many cases this assumption is true and the Good guys are enriching and improving Wikipedia's content. However, as the old proverb says: "The way to hell is paved with good intentions", sometimes despite of the good intentions the deliverables are not good enough. I will try to support my argument by examples. Example 1: despite of a respectable reference I had to clarify a specific Configuration Management aspect, as part...
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