QUOTE(dtobias @ Wed 24th June 2009, 11:25am)
"Wikipedia: Threat or Menace? Film at 11!"
Watching Wikipedia from this close is rather like watching Orwell's Ministry of Truth - from the inside the actions of the bureaucrats are banal and petty, but from the outside the results are a complete loss of freedom by reason of cultural and historical memory loss.
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Wikipedia will never be destroyed. If Wikimedia was shut down tomorrow, there'd be a hundred avatars of the same content desperate to be the next Wikipedia.
The only way to beat Wikipedia is to supercede Wikipedia, to produce a web-hosted encyclopedia of real scholarly, historical value.
I don't see that happening yet. I have my own ideas but no money to carry it out.
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