Marketplace Tech Report for Thursday, December 29, 2011
Dec 29, 2011

Marketplace Tech Report for Thursday, December 29, 2011

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Wikipedia has always been somewhat idyllic in its business model: an enormous treasury of knowledge accumulated and edited by the whole world. We all collaborate to build the world's greatest encyclopedia. Still, the number of editors for the site has fallen flat recently, so Wikipedia is changing its editing software in hopes of becoming more user-friendly.

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Wikipedia has always been somewhat idyllic in its business model: an enormous treasury of knowledge accumulated and edited by the whole world. We all collaborate to build the world’s greatest encyclopedia. Still, the number of editors for the site has fallen flat recently, so Wikipedia is changing its editing software in hopes of becoming more user-friendly.

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