Month: December 2004
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Why Wikipedia Must Jettison Its Anti-Elitism
This first appeared on the now-defunct Kuro5hin.org. Wikipedia has started to hit the big time. Accordingly, several critical articles have come out, including “The Faith-Based Encyclopedia” by a former editor-in-chief of Britannica and a very widely-syndicated AP article that was given such titles as “When Information Access Is So Easy, Truth Can Be Elusive”. These…