[WikiEN-l] The London Review of Books on Wikipedia

[Fred Bauder]

> Andrew Gray wrote:
>> "Like Boiling a Frog", David Runciman.
>> http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n10/runc01_.html
>>
>> >From the last issue of the London Review of Books, a long and chewy
>> article about Wikipedia; generally positive, though it draws attention
>> to the problems of writing quality and "recentism". There's a review
>> of Andrew Lih's book buried somewhere in it, too...
>>
>>
> "... encyclopedias have been made better by the advent of the internet,
> but newspapers have been made worse: the cumulative impact of the
> readers’ comments that can now be appended online to almost any article
> tends to diminish most forms of human understanding."
>
> Worth reading for that insight alone.
>
> Charles

Imagine what would happen if the readers could actually get at the articles.

Fred