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“Mirror Mirror On the Wall …
… what is the world’s, largest, most varied, most participatory, most controversial encyclopedia of them all?”, Britannica asking its mirror, grinning while waiting for an answer. The mirror: Erm …… hmmmm ….hmh … WIKIPEDIA. Little piece of statistics: as of November 2004 there were about 28.000 Wikipedians, 109 languages and 380.000 articles in it’s archives.
And a piece of gossip: its co-creator, Larry Sanger, is a professional epistemologist, a devout doubter, believing only the things that he could directly perceived or that could be logically derived from what he perceived. But eventually he began to realize that some truths can not be observed, and this pragmatic view even became the focus of his dissertation. Anyway, he left Wikipedia in 2002, party because the funding for his position ran out and partly because the fractiousness and nasty revert wars among Wikipedians themselves. Now he’s a lecturer at Ohio State University.
By Nana | December 25, 2004 | Topics: General, Tech |