Why all the
haters? In essence, this is the question about
Wikipdia posed and answered by
Peter Gill of the UK Guardian. While Wikipedia is still largely viewed inside the academy with suspicion, if not downright derision, I'll be the first to admit that often, as someone who writes about popular culture, Wikipedia is invaluable, and, to my eye, continues to get better as more and more people use it and, consequently, help fact-check and edit its content. While, certainly, in many fields it's best to use edited and sourced materials from reliable publishers, if you're interested in the fast-moving infoverse, Wikipedia is essential. If more people joined in the writing and editing of the Wiki, it might just turn into that authoritative guide to everything -- from
jelly beans to
Jim Crow to the
Jem'hadar - envisioned by
Douglas Adams.
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