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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