On 3 February 2011 11:26, Mark delirium@hackish.org wrote:
What about Wikipedia's culture actually led to an encyclopedia being written, with a lot of good information, and a fairly neutral tone for the most part?
Nerds are obsessive about things being right and not wrong. This leads to most things about Wikipedia.
That's something Nupedia didn't succeed in, and on the second point is something even most academic-press books don't succeed in--- the median overview book on a subject sneaks in quite a bit of opinion and original research, and sometimes even digs at academic opponents if the editors let them get away with it, which is why you can't really read an academic book without *also* reading a few journals' reviews of it.
NPOV is IMO W