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<img alt="" height="1" width="1" />An MIT Researcher Explains Why [b]Wikipedia Succeeded Over Other Online Encyclopedias[/b]
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The guys behind Wikipedia weren't the first to experiment with creating a crowd-sourced online encyclopedia. They were just the first ones to do it successfully, on a worldwide scale. There were seven collaborative encyclopedias that aspired to ...



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McDonald's, like Wikipedia, is a "worldwide phenomenon"; and a daily diet of either is pretty bad for your health. It's astounding to me that an MIT researcher would still be in awe of the world's most irresponsible aggregation of so-called knowledge.
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