Possibly the greatest idea of the Computer Age.

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Wikipedia’s promise is nothing less than the liberation of human knowledge - both by incorporating all of it through the collaborative process, and by freely sharing it with everybody who has access to the internet. This is a radically popular idea. - View Quote Details on Wikipedia’s promise is nothing less than the liberation of human…
The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in reality, not in theory. - View Quote Details on The problem about Wikipedia is, that it just works in…
Wikipedia functions much like an iceberg: for every page of supposedly factual information one sees peeking out, hidden below are countless thousands of pages on debate, argument, and vandalism. - View Quote Details on Wikipedia functions much like an iceberg: for every page of…
The real problem is not Wikipedia, but reporters who fail to check their facts. - View Quote Details on The real problem is not Wikipedia, but reporters who fail…
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I edit Wikipedia. - View Quote Details on Shoppin’ online for deals on some writable media.
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Hofstadter: The entry is filled with inaccuracies, and it kind of depresses me.
Solomon: So fix it.
Hofstadter: The next day someone will fix it back. - View Quote Details on Hofstadter: The entry is filled with inaccuracies, and it kind…
I love Wikipedia. Any site that’s got a longer entry on “truthiness ” than on Lutherans, has its priorities straight. - View Quote Details on I love Wikipedia. Any site that’s got a longer entry…
When I visited the offices [in St. Petersburg, Florida] in March, the walls were bare, the furniture battered. With the addition of a dead plant, the suite could pass for a graduate-student lounge. - View Quote Details on When I visited the offices [in St. Petersburg, Florida] in…
The best thing about Wikipedia is that you can make up your own information to put on it! - View Quote Details on The best thing about Wikipedia is that you can make…
[H]owever closely a Wikipedia article may at some point in its life attain to reliability, it is forever open to the uninformed or semiliterate meddler. - View Quote Details on [H]owever closely a Wikipedia article may at some point in…