
The website can be thought of as a non market peer production platform that enables success for some users and dissatisfaction for others in the sense that their governance structure has been labelled has "autocracy and bureaucracy."

"Wikipedia shapes online sociality not by implementing buttons for liking, friending, following and trending- functions anchored in the popularity principle- but by contructing a platform for 'knowing' that is moored in the neutrality principle" (Van Dijck, 2013).
Wikipedia has created a platform that is actively involved in what Van Dijck calls a "culture of connectivity" but has done so in a way that contributes to our knowledge and understanding of everyday concepts and largely valuable to us as students. Wikipedia has never allowed advertisements so it's obvious that this is not their business model- rather they
focus on public and private donations from people like ourselves and companies to keep up with the maintenance of the platform. Without these donations, the "free online encyclopedia" would not exist, and that to me- sounds like a nightmare.
Would you agree that Wikipedia can be described as the epitome of crowdsourcing? Would you consider donating to the Wikipedia foundation?
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