[Foundation-l] Looking for stories of readers affected by Wikipedia

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.rs
Thu Nov 11 07:47:57 UTC 2010


On 11/11/2010 07:31 AM, Sue Gardner wrote:
> * Ideally, they would be stories of people who
> pre-exposure-to-Wikipedia would have had circumscribed access to
> information. Because they grew up in a small town with no library,
> because their school didn't stock certain kinds of books, because
> materials in their language are of limited availability, because their
> government limits access to certain types of information -- in
> general, because their economic/political/socio-cultural circumstances
> somehow impede(d) easy access to information.

I have an anti-story, about a critically useful information that was 
available in a home library, yet would not be allowed on Wikipedia per 
its policies. Anyone interested?



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