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June 13, 2005
The Decembrist: The Wikipedia Debate
Interesting article on the whole Wiki thing. Mark Schmitt is the author.
The Decembrist: The Wikipedia Debate:
The Wikipedia Debate
Getting away from politics for a moment (maybe), one of the most interesting debates going on at the moment is about the Wikipedia, the open-source encyclopedia-like reference site that anyone can edit. I've been interested in projects like Wikipedia in theory for a while -- in part because I'm interested in whether such open systems can be useful for the intellectual work of politics -- but recently have been amazed by how vastly useful it is. For example, to take a kind of narrow interest of mine, twice in the last few weeks I've needed (or wanted) to know who was chair of a particular congressional committee at a particular time in recent history. That's difficult information to find; some of the committees have histories on their own web sites, but most don't. But it's all there on Wikipedia.
Posted by ldavies at June 13, 2005 04:50 PM