Definition of crowdsourcing

crowdsourcing    

noun - uncountable

• the use of visitors to a website to accomplish some task. For example: the management of information on Wikipedia through its millions of visitors.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                            
  
  Citation from "Crowdsourcing Social Networks to Inform Public Policy", Wired, Eliot Van Buskirk, November 18 2009 censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.

  Last edited on Jun 15 2013. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Nov 18 2009.

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