Saturday, September 11, 2010

Look at this:Wikipedia Entry Turned Into Actual Encyclopedia                                              |
|   from the now-how-much-would-you-pay? dept.                                                 |
|   posted by timothy on Friday September 10, @08:03 (Wikipedia)                               |
|   https://news.slashdot.org/story/10/09/10/034201/Wikipedia-Entry-Turned-Into-Actual-Encyclop|
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[0]Ponca City, We love you writes "If [1]journalism is the first rough
draft of history, what does that make Wikipedia? Time Magazine reports
that technology writer James Bridle has created a 12-volume compendium of
[2]every edit made to the Wikipedia entry for the Iraq War between
December 2004 and November 2009. 'It contains arguments over numbers,
differences of opinion on relevance and political standpoints, and
frequent moments when someone erases the whole thing and just writes
"Saddam Hussein was a dickhead.,"' writes Bridle. 'This is
historiography. This is what culture actually looks like: a process of
argument, of dissenting and accreting opinion, of gradual and not always
correct codification.' The books presumably only exist in one copy, so
they are not for sale."

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   http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=10/09/10/034201

Links:
   0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/
   1. http://www.slate.com/id/2265540/
   2. http://newsfeed.time.com/2010/09/07/wikipedia-entry-on-iraq-war-turned-into-actual-encyclopedia/

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