On 3 February 2011 11:26, Mark <delirium(a)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