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{{a|devil|}}What in the old days we used to call a librarian, but since that role can be safely covered by Google, now a person who professes to know all about [[document assembly]], [[artificial intelligence]], machine learning, [[distributed ledger technology]] and smart contracts, but actually just knows more about them than the [[General Counsel]], and is therefore assured tenure as long as she can keep up with the latest [[buzzword]]s.
{{a|devil|}}What in the old days we used to call a librarian, but since that role can be safely covered by Google, now a person who professes to know all about [[document assembly]], [[artificial intelligence]], machine learning, [[distributed ledger technology]] and smart contracts, but actually just knows more about them than the [[General Counsel]], and is therefore assured tenure as long as she can keep up with the latest [[buzzword]]s.


But in knowledge management is fundamental part of excellent legal practice. We all do it — the JC is basically a knowledge management system — there is a scale opportunity if you can get people to share their systems in an intuitive way. The best example of this is, of course, Wikipedia. But the scale is literally enormous: Wikipedia has nearly a billion monthly users, but only 125,000 odd active editors, each month.<ref>Unique devices per month, according to [https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/reading/unique-devices/normal|line|2-year|(access-site)~mobile-site*desktop-site|monthly Wikiemedia’s own stats engine]; editors per month, according to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics Wikipedia’s stats page].</ref> Historically, about 1 percent of its active editors have generated 77 percent of the site’s content.<ref>According to [https://www.vice.com/en/article/7x47bb/wikipedia-editors-elite-diversity-foundation Vice magazine]</ref> So the user/editor ratio on Wikipedia is one in ten thousand, for any old editor, or one in a ''million'', for an enthusiastic editor.
But in knowledge management is fundamental part of excellent legal practice. We all do it — the JC is basically a knowledge management system — there is a scale opportunity if you can get people to share their systems in an intuitive way. The best example of this is, of course, Wikipedia. But the scale is literally enormous: Wikipedia has nearly a billion monthly users, but only 125,000 odd active editors, each month.<ref>Unique devices per month, according to [https://stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wikipedia.org/reading/unique-devices/normal|line|2-year|(access-site)~mobile-site*desktop-site|monthly Wikimedia’s stats engine]; editors per month, according to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Statistics Wikipedia’s stats page].</ref> Historically, about 1 percent of its active editors have generated 77 percent of the site’s content.<ref>According to [https://www.vice.com/en/article/7x47bb/wikipedia-editors-elite-diversity-foundation Vice magazine]</ref> So the user/editor ratio on Wikipedia is one in ten thousand, for any old editor, or one in a ''million'', for an enthusiastic editor.


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