Daiane Bushey | Blog Post on the Future of Wikipedia

I believe – and I hope – that Wikipedia will continue to exist in the future. Maybe its “completely chaotic model” will need some changes and improvements. However, I think the main concept of Wikipedia, that is, a free, neutral, digitalized and crowdsourced encyclopedia, should be sustained in the future. Internal organizational tensions, conflicts between longtime editors and new users, as well as technological issues (such as the difficult of composing or editing Wikipedia articles through smartphone) are problems that does not seem to be completely inherent to Wikipedia’s model but rather problems that were developed and can be solved through time, as Wikipedia grows and evolves.

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