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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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  1. Wikipedia admins are fucking bastards by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bsadowski1, Pmdrive1061, Nawlinwiki, Derhexer and Gogo Dodo are the worst of the bastards.

    You can find a lot more. Go to wikipedia, click login / create account and create accounts with insulting usernames.

    Willy on Wheels!

  2. Re:"This is historiography." by Alarindris · · Score: 0, Troll

    Lol. You're an idiot.