Baker on Wikipedia: save our stubs!

by ckelty on March 17th, 2008

Speaking of the NYRB, there is a totally “charming” article about Wikipedia by Nicholson Baker this month. Baker is exactly the kind of person I want to have speaking for Wikipedia, and his focus is not on reliability or legitimacy or the moral panics that so many seem to grasp at, but on the dangers of the “deletionists” and his one-man crusade to stop them from ruining what is in his estimation (and I agree) the true charm of Wikipedia, it’s ability to take the ephemeral, the obscure, the barely noticed and the everyday as seriously as the most revered data points of our collective experience. He asks for our help in preventing the deletionists from winning…

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  1. I actually wrote something about this phenomena a while back. Even got translated into Italian!

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