Found an anecdote on Mark Cuban’s blog. Highlights the nature of the information on Wikipedia (and the process on its formation).
Along the same note, here’s a link to a now classic Stephen Colbert report on Wikipedia.
I’ve received a lot of feedback to my position on Wikipedia brought about by a recent Wall Street Journal article. The feedback has been productive. Its helped elucidate some of the key differences between Wikipedia and Britannica.
The foremost of these differences seems to be audience expectations.
There is one world, online, where people want to be part of the process of growing knowledge, of being heard and sharing. Knowledge in a particular area, for them, is something malleable and something they use to identify themselves with a community.
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