Crowdsourcing is a neologism for the act of taking a task traditionally performed by an employee or contractor, and outsourcing it to an undefined, generally large group of people, in the form of an open call. The word was first coined by Jeff Howe in a June 2006 Wired magazine article. Examples: innocentive – wikipedia [...]
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video: “Truth in Numbers” “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge.” J. Wales, Founder of Wikipedia Wikipedia is a free, multilingual, open content encyclopedia project operated by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its name is a portmanteau of the words wiki [...]
