Wikipedia Entry Turned Into Actual Encyclopedia

Ponca City, We love you writes "If 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 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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The iraq war?

[Thanshin]

It would've been much more interesting were it made with the discussion on malamanteau.

Saddam Hussein not a dickhead??

[captainpanic]

[...] and frequent moments when someone erases the whole thing and just writes "Saddam Hussein was a dickhead.

I searched the page, and I cannot find the entry that Saddam Hussein was a dickhead. Should I assume he was not?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iraq_War

So

[JustOK]

Saddam wasn't a dickhead?

Re:More Pictures at BookTwo

[fyngyrz]

Indeed. Or, perhaps in the case of Wikipedia, "History is written by the whiners."

:o)

Re:Cathedral vs. Bazaar

[Izhido]

Okay, this is all good and all that. But, I think the real question in here is: *WHO* is the real owner of the Brooklyn bridge? Who should I call to make a bid for it? I mean, I'm so tired of giving money to the wrong people for it... sigh...