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Questioning Authority • Evaluating Wikipedia Articles

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If Wikipedia is a collaborative project open to all, why are fewer than 15 percent of the site's …

[Jon Awbrey]

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Being an old-fangled Peirce-James-Dewey pragmatist, I strongly believe in a life of learning by doing.

And what I see the “Common 87% Man” doing and learning in Wikiputia is more than anything else an unexamined life of moral and intellectual cowardice.

Whether it's by nature or by accident I don't really care, but I can hardly help but rejoice that any fraction of humanity is spared that manner of learning by doing.

— Jon Awbrey • February 4, 2011 (8:18 pm)