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The engine of the Internet is collaboration, which this blog is dedicated to exploring. True Internet collaboration began with the wiki — which just underwent a complete transformation

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A conventional wiki, says Mike Caulfield, is “a relentless consensus engine.” A federated wiki may eventually yield consensus, but it promotes what Ward Cunningham calls a chorus of voices. Does that sound like a pipe dream? Perhaps, but so did wiki, agile practices, and decentralized version control.