WIRED magazine has a great article on the history of and how Wikipedia, the open source, online encyclopedia project works: The Book Stops Here.

What’s interesting about the article is that like many online communities, Wikipedia has a culture and an evolving set of social rules, bad guys who break rules and various levels of moderation for fixing things when they are broken.

I posted my first entry this morning: the word “dysnomia” because it wasn’t in there. It will be interesting to track it over time as I just used the simple definition available most places on the web (including at LD Resources).

I plan to post more and not just on subjects under the “learning disabilities” umbrella that I know about but hopefully on many subjects.

The article gives me the impression that this is an ideal, generally ego-less community of folks who get how great it is to be connected via the web and to be able to build something like a world encyclopedia from scratch themselves.