Resource Origin: Wired

“It’s the late-nineteenth century. Professor James Murray is leading a literary project that draws from the knowledge, expertise and time of tens of thousands of volunteers. Operating in Oxford, England, he receives hundreds of thousands of slips of paper over the course of several decades, each containing the definition of a particular English word. To Murray, these contributors are strangers — unpaid, but working together as one to collate the definitions and origins of every word in the English language.

It took 70 years to complete, but the Oxford English Dictionary was arguably history’s first massively-crowdsourced collation of English knowledge.

It’s now the early 21st century. Jimmy Wales is leading a literary project that draws from the knowledge, expertise and time of hundreds of thousands of volunteers. Operating globally, his project has received millions of contributions, edits and expansions. To Wales, these contributors are often strangers — unpaid, but working together as one to collate the collective product of all human knowledge…”

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/the-oxford-english-wiktionary

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