As part of the North Star Playbook it is suggested to discuss in the product team about the game (Attention, Transaction and Productivity) they are playing.
I have been asked which game Wikipedia is playing and I have collected arguments for each one of the games: I am interested to hear your opinion about which one of the three you think wikipedia is actually playing.
Attention Game: Wikipedia is a free and community based knowledge sharing platform. The biggest value they bring is to provide a neutral alternative information source that is not driven by profit or politics and therefore provides a general level of security agains manipulation and propaganda. The more people know about that service the powerful it becomes and the more valuable it is. A user doesn’t even need to look anything up in wikipedia - just the fact that there is such a control instance regulates the whole information market. Also the fact that wikipedia is financially based on donations could promote the idea that they play the attention game.
Transaction: Wikipedia is an information transaction service. The users provide knowledge and continues quality control and in return they can receive information for themselves. This is basically an transaction of information and the value is created by each transaction.
Productivity: Wikipedia doesn’t contain any information that is special to their database. All the information are public knowledge and it is just a place were you can get access faster than researching the internet yourself. It’s about making the access to public information more productive. If the productivity of the user grows also wikipedia grows.
What do you think?
to drive the knowledge exploration in context of that piece of information. This definitely keeps the user engaged and increases their time spent on the website. And the amount of information stored/edited in there always gets bigger and bigger.
