Yesterday I mistakenly wrote that Wikipedia is outside the realm of open source. I’ve since tracked down a presentation by Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and have realised how wrong I was to make that statement.
The video is a fascinating look into the organisational structure and sociology that is Wikipedia and is clearly indicative of a community with strong roots in open source and free software philosophy. There are numerous points and notable quotes from the presentation that support this notion, many of which are listed below:
Organisation

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One of the main problems with upgrading versions of a browser – especially beta versions – are that existing plugins are not always supported. Frequently this means losing functionality while developers implement the changes necessary to get them working again.
Personally I don’t use many as I find it loads down the load times for the program; but the ones I do use I rely heavily upon.
Del.icio.us is one such example, and when the upgrade to Firefox 3 beta 4 resulted in the loss of 75% of my plugins it was …