[Foundation-l] Looking for stories of readers affected by Wikipedia

[John Vandenberg]

On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Nikola Smolenski <smolensk at eunet.rs> wrote:
> On 11/11/2010 07:31 AM, Sue Gardner wrote:
>> * Ideally, they would be stories of people who
>> pre-exposure-to-Wikipedia would have had circumscribed access to
>> information. Because they grew up in a small town with no library,
>> because their school didn't stock certain kinds of books, because
>> materials in their language are of limited availability, because their
>> government limits access to certain types of information -- in
>> general, because their economic/political/socio-cultural circumstances
>> somehow impede(d) easy access to information.
>
> I have an anti-story, about a critically useful information that was
> available in a home library, yet would not be allowed on Wikipedia per
> its policies. Anyone interested?

I am.

It sounds like it would be allowed on Wikisource.

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John Vandenberg