Consensus : general agreement from Wiktionary. Other definitions are “without active opposition to the proposed course of action.” consensus is overwhelming agreement “which does not mean unanimity.” It works by small meetings and it is the most important thing in Wikipedia. Since wikipedia is well known for collective intelligence and small talks(interaction between wikis). It is sometimes hard to have a perfect consensus since there are a lot of people have different thoughts and for the high quality articles, we need to discuss if there are some arguments with the subject. Also, consensus is the preferred method of making decisions at wikipedia.
It is a simple word, but can be explained in complex way. It is an another concept of decision making way of the Internet usage. I heard that Roman people used to have discussion at Foro Romano where they talked about politics and other things. I think it's a bit simillar to consensus. Now we chat on Facebook like talk page in Wikipedia. Whenever we have a team project, we make our own group page on Facebook and upload files and discuss and we make a consensus. How would be for the future consensus? We still would use the way of methods in present, however since more methods of consensus is found, I wonder what would it be like in the further future. Have I understood concept of 'consensus' right?
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