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Wednesday - May 04, 2005 at 10:56 AM inThis article is exactly rightAfter my own poking and prodding of Wikipedia last
fall, this article in Slate sums up my conclusions
exactly:
Wikipedia is the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
come to life. Not the stories, but the actual guide itself. Articles reflect
the interests of the authors, not the readers; nobody's quite sure how much (if
any) editing and fact-checking has been done; and you are more likely to find
quirky exposition than authoritative
information.
Despite (or perhaps because of) these shortcomings, just as the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy far outsold the more scholarly Encyclopedia Galactica, Wikipedia will inevitably prove more popular than the traditional encyclopediae it replaces. Posted at 10:56 AM | Permalink | | | |