Finally a real word: “It’s not outsourcing; it’s crowdsourcing.” (Howe, J, 2006)

 

http://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2013/06/oed-june-2013-update/

Did you know that the term "crowdsourcing" made it into the Oxfors English Dictionary this year?

Considering that the OED defines the verb “to crowdsource” as “obtain (information or input into a particular task or project) by enlisting the services of a number of people, either paid or unpaid, typically via the Internet“ (2013) it seems quite noteworthy that the dictionaries’ content itself was once gathered by an early form of crowdsourcing in the 1800s. Volunteers used to send in paper slips of current word usages with which the dictionary was put together.