Info/Law

Interesting New York Times piece today with a generally favorable review of the detailed coverage of last week’s horrifying shootings at Virginia Tech that is available on Wikipedia, the free community-edited encyclopedia. The article includes quotes from a number of Wikipedia editors and seems to do a pretty good job of demystifying the process by which Wikipedia articles arise and evolve. This is hardly the first time Wikipedia has beaten mainstream news organizations at their own game, but it’s nice to see them receive generally favorable recognition for it.

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