Re:Wikipedia Has Cancer
by leephillips on Monday October 31, 2022 @02:11PM
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Thanks, and I’m glad that you got some value from the essay and the responses to it. It expresses an attitude and set of opinions that I largely share and that have fallen into obscurity in the midst of a misguided elevation of crowdsourcing concepts. I didn’t mean to misrepresent it; my comment is my own conclusion, guided by this essay, by other analyses, and by observing the, yes, cancerous affect that Wikipedia has on the web.
It's in fact a seriously amazing essay, thank you for sharing it here. The 2006 Jaron Lanier essay, in addition with the 13 responses (including from Cory Doctorow and Jimmy Wales) is a golden nugget of internet history, and a snapshot of what people believed would be the future of the internet (oh boy, with 15 years of insight, there is quite a lot to say)