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Top 5 for Wikipedia Week

Mark Glaser

by Mark Glaser, April 19, 2006

  1. Wikipedia primer
    Encyclopedia's philosophy: 'Experts are scum'
  2. Wikia rising
    Wales gets $4 mil funding for community wiki site
  3. Great Failure of Wikipedia
    Scathing speech on inner workings of Wikipedia
  4. Britannica v. Wikipedia study
    Nature gives props to wiki; Britannica bites back [pdf]
  5. Wikipedia co-founders speak
    The Register: 'How did anyone ever expect it to work?'
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Mark Glaser said:

April 20, 2006 9:28 AM

So true. I would put that at least at #6. A very interesting experiment in truth-telling and spoofery.

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