Wiki of the Week: A million Penguins

This weeks wiki is an interesting perspective on the anyone-can-edit philosophy. "A Million Penguins" was a collaborative attempt by Penguin books to write a novel using a wiki.

Unfortunately, it turned out to be a really difficult task. There were major simultaneous issues with people making too many edits, and not enough people editing. Eventually the project stopped, with what was, at best, a novella. You can read it in a half hour or so, and it doesn't make much sense. Some view it as a sucess, most as a failure.

Either way, it certaintly changed the way a lot of people thought about collaboration and the internet.

A Million Penguins

and "A Million Penguins" from Wikipedia