Enterprise 2.0 and Wikipedia, Again

Posted on August 4, 2007
Filed Under Enterprise Software, web 2.0 |

Zoli writes about the ongoing case of revisionism over at Wikipedia on the "enterprise 2.0" topic.

So supposedly Enterprise 2.0, which just in 2006 was not noteworthy or original enough to be mentioned in Wikipedia, has been used for half a decade. In that case, there sure is a lot of evidence - why didn’t Andy McAfee’s search on the joint terms “Alan Warms” and “Enterprise 2.0.” bring any meaningful results? Nowadays, “if it’s not on Google, it does not exist“…

Andy McAfee, Associate Professor at HBS, who can legitimately claim credit for being among the first to use the term, is similarly perplexed about how something that has a clear record can be subject to considerable and frequent revision.

Does anyone have a good explanation for why this particular Wikipedia article seems to remain in great flux instead of converging, despite the pretty clear record? Because I honestly don’t.

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