> 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 > readersÂ’ 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 _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
