Would-Be Wikipedia Replacements Stumble

February 20th, 2008 | Category: Linux

folks either love or hate Wikipedia, but the huge majority are lovers. Wikipedia has many thousands of committed (which is a nice way to say “obsessive”) contributors, more than 2 million articles and an Alexa ranking as one of the top 10 Web sites. Among

the under-25 set in specific, Wikipedia is the reference source of choice. Those who love old-paradigm encyclopedias — including many encyclopedia publishers, teachers and librarians — view Wikipedia with dismay. They are suspicious of the wiki principle of distributed authority.

Original post by Mick O’Leary

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