CRDTs, Screen Estate, and the Library of Alexandria

Wikipedia. Our beloved Wikipedia. Always asking for a penny. Like the built libraries of the world, there is an answer to the question, “Who controls Wikipedia?” It is not a simple thing to walk in to Lund Stadsbibliotek and order construction of a section on Robert Furse, the yeoman who “worked hard, played hard” through the late 16th century (Ashley, 1988, pp. 21-22). Nor is it simple to secure a space for a library of your own with such a section. Wikipedia affords us greater freedoms, but by the in-between of the lights (as Robert Furse might have said), Wikipedia content is still subject to the Wikipedia administration’s discretion and the Wikipedia policies and guidelines. It is still governed, and you might not be approved to write about Robert Furse in the way that you’d like to. Where, then, might you find Screen Estate of your own on which to publish, and with which means?

• Space
• Means
• Control