How Wikipedia's silent coup ousted our traditional sources of knowledge
Friday, January 15, 2016 - 09:02
in Mathematics & Economics
As Wikipedia turns 15, volunteer editors worldwide will be celebrating with themed cakes and edit-a-thons aimed at filling holes in poorly covered topics. It's remarkable that a user-editable encyclopedia project that allows anyone to edit has got this far, especially as the website is kept afloat through donations and the efforts of thousands of volunteers. But Wikipedia hasn't just become an important and heavily relied-upon source of facts: it has become an authority on those facts.