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Organizing Wikimania

Wikimania, the big Wikipedia confab, is happening Aug. 4-6, on the Harvard Law School campus. It looks like it’s going to be terrific. And because the Berkman Center has been involved a bit, I’ve gotten to see how Wikimania is being organized.

I’m happy to say that it is being done entirely bottom-up. For example, take the meals. Everyone brings what they think is the best food. So, perhaps you place your organic peanut butter on the buffet table. I remove it, because clearly my Tofurkey is objectively better than your PB — better tasting and better for you. If you disagree, you can “roll back” the table to your PB, although I’m within my rights to re-replace it with my Tofurkey. This goes on until we come to some neutral food offering (NFO), such as peanut-butter-and-Tofurkey salad. Thus the issue is resolved, at least until some non-NFO bastard replaces our joint offering with some godawful sweet and sour soy ball crap.

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