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The Truth According To Wikipedia

Claire Gordon, Huffington Post
A few months ago, my friend was cited on the German Wikipedia entry for The Social Network. This was exciting, because I had just seen Das Social Network at …

[Jon Awbrey]

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In its impact on the ecology of knowledge, Wikipedia amounts to a non-sustai­nable exploitati­on of cultural resources.

Wikipedia is analogous to a multinatio­nal timber conglomera­te that clear-cuts living forests to crank out its lumber and its pulp, with no understand­ing of the living system that it sucks on like a destructiv­e parasite.

� Jon Awbrey • 07 Feb 2011 (6:00 PM)

Reply to objection �

I am saying that our cultural resources are cultivated­, develop, and evolve by means of processes that need to be valued as much as we value their products.

I am saying that Wikipedia Culture, as it currently exists in reality, and not in the fantasies of those who promote it, exploits the contents of our common culture in a way that undermines the very dynamics that created it.

� Jon Awbrey • 08 Feb 2011 (11:20 AM)