Month: October 2025
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Grokipedia: a first look
To begin with my credentials for those who arrive here not knowing who I am: I’ve started, or helped start, five encyclopedias and meta-encyclopedia projects, including Wikipedia. So I know a thing or two about launching digital encyclopedia projects. 1. How we got here But, being a former academic, I also know writing good encyclopedia…
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On Wikipedia, the God of the Bible Is the Head of a Pantheon
My God is called, in the Bible, Yahweh. That is, Yahweh is a speculative transliteration of the Hebrew name we know only by the vowel-less “tetragrammaton,” YHWH, or יְהוָה, which in generations past was rendered instead Jehovah. In your Bible, the name is translated, rather than transliterated, with the stylized the LORD. This is the…
