Here’s the source of all ills with Wikipedia: it’s those pesky “librarian types,” mucking up what was a perfectly good encyclopedia.
Or so says a commenter on a blog entry by danah boyd recounting the perplexing history of the Wikipedia entry supposedly about her: “I stopped contributing regularly [to Wikipedia] a while ago because keeping up with deletions/alterations by the librarian types got to be too much effort. These people cause real problems for any sort of material that isn’t taught in high school.”
Posted on this day, other years:
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- Microsoft and Gay Rights: Linux, Anyone? - 2005
- FRL: The Mix Tape - 2005
- Last Call for LII Survey - 2005
- How to Talk at Conferences, Continued - 2004
- Librarians who Write - 2004
- The Pragmatic and Unimaginative Shall Inherit the Earth - 2004
- Google's SafeSearch - 2004
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