But I’m not one of the Wikipedia bashers, either. It’s a good, often great, first reference, an amazing feat of predominantly quality work and a refutation to those who would argue that you can’t coax good work out of people without paying them.
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„It’s difficult to not allow anonymity,” he says. „The default setting of everything on the Internet is that people are anonymous.”
Many Wikipedians do share their identities, he says, but to insist on universal author identification would require „onerous” procedures, and even then you wouldn’t know for sure if they were telling the truth.
Which raises the question: If they’re not, or might not be, telling the truth about who they are, should they be trusted to tell the truth about anybody or anything else?
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