TY - JOUR AU - Duguid, Paul PY - 2006/10/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Limits of self-organization: Peer production and "laws of quality" JF - First Monday JA - FM VL - 11 IS - 10 SE - DO - 10.5210/fm.v11i10.1405 UR - https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/1405 SP - AB - People often implicitly ascribe the quality of peer–production projects such as Project Gutenberg or Wikipedia to what I call “laws” of quality. These are drawn from Open Source software development and it is not clear how applicable they are outside the realm of software. I look at examples from peer production projects to ask whether faith in these laws does not so much guarantee quality as hide the need for improvement. ER -