Hear hear! I just imagine all these comments being written in stentorian tones.On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 2:18 PM, James Alexander <jalexander@wikimedia.org> wrote:or:Certainly Wikipedia is more reliable than Giles CorenI sold my Encyclopedia Britannica when I got married, as no longer needed.
My wife knows everything.JJN is quite right. I think that those who disparage Wikipedia are generally guilty of a form of intellectual snobbery- "I had to work hard to acquire all my knowledge, why should it be made so easy for everyone nowadays?"In fact you need to know a fair bit to use Wikipedia effectively and check its accuracy, so Giles shouldn't worry too much.Quite agree. This came up once before when Oliver Kamm wrote an article disparaging Wikipedia. TOLsters argued with him and he retired from the scene fairly quickly.On Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:How about Ocaasi with that Wikipedia Library giant keyring of his? (:PineOn Wed, Dec 16, 2015 at 1:45 PM, Joe Sutherland <jsutherland@wikimedia.org> wrote:This does sound pretty good! I don't have access to the Times either, and asking around it seems not many do...On 16 December 2015 at 07:44, Pine W <wiki.pine@gmail.com> wrote:_______________________________________________PineThe lead is promising, though much of the letter is paywalled.Thanks to Johnbod for pointing this out! http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/opinion/letters/article4639798.ece
"Sir, I am — as he knows — an enthusiastic admirer of Giles Coren, but he is badly misinformed about Wikipedia (“Why stop at Trump?”, Dec 12). As a writer of history I resort to it at least a dozen times a day. I could never have written my last two books without it, and I have never caught it out yet, which is more than I can say of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Its range is astonishing: it is almost impossible to find a person, place or subject that it has left uncovered (end of my preview).... a work of reference as useful as any in existence..."
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