Hello Wikipedians of WikiDC,
This video on AI (artificial intelligence) by Jaron Lanier has some food for thought regarding the "Cult of the Encyclopedia" ...
We're talking about the "Cult of the Encyclopedia" in the sense of the Lord of the Rings metaphor of "one ring/encyclopedia to rule them all ... and in the darkness bind them", the idea that somehow the Wiki Encyclopedia is the centrally located "self organizing" website that will organize the factual materials of the Internet into a coherent and usable Big Data whole ...
Check in around minute 16:30 where Mr. Lanier starts talking about how unpaid translators are the key to assembling the corpora of knowledge that makes Big Data and AI possible.