The Thonemann article turns out to be public (about a third of TLS
articles are):

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/encyclopedic-knowledge/

I rather enjoyed this -

"Given the manner of its compilation, the accursed thing really is a
whole lot more reliable than it has any right to be. Like many
university lecturers, I used to warn my own students off using
Wikipedia (as pointless an injunction as telling them not to use
Google, or not to leave their essay to the last minute). I finally
gave up doing so about three years ago, after reading a paper by an
expert on South Asian coinage in which the author described the
Wikipedia entry on the Indo-Greek Kingdom (c.200 BC–AD 10) as the most
reliable overview of Indo-Greek history to be found anywhere – quite
true, though not necessarily as much of a compliment to Wikipedia as
you might think."

Andrew.

On 26 May 2016 at 11:56, Charles Matthews

<charles.r.matthews@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> Enjoyable two-page review today in the Times Literary Supplement by Peter
> Thonemann, flagged on the front page as "The triumph of Wikipedia?"
>
> Lynch's book You Could Look It Up has the subtitle "The reference shelf from
> ancient Babylon", and WP is duly mentioned in the review at length, with
> Rich Farmbrough getting a namecheck.
>
> Thonemann is at Wadham College, Oxford, and gives good quotes: e.g.
> "Wiki-editors are, in my experience, an exceptionally friendly and helpful
> bunch".
>
> Charles
>
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