THE TWISTED NATURE OF WIKIPEDIA
Mar 22, 2020
3 minutes
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Jimmy Wales’ and Larry Sanger’s idea of an online encyclopedia created by the people, for the people, seemed like a brilliant idea at the time. Wikipedia’s concept of crowd-sourcing information on anything and everything, and making it accessible to everyone, was a game changer—and in many ways it continues to be so, albeit for different reasons.
As Wales states on his website: “Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what
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