Early 2000s scholars debated Wikipedia’s reliability as a knowledge source

Evidence

These are excerpts from a website last visited October 23, 2006, and are very heavily edited down from a much larger and even more rambling set of texts. Some interesting discussion of the pros and cons of Wikipedia as a source of information are Read (2006); Poe (2006); Scott (2006); and Keen (2007). — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2156

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Wikipedia reflects median internet common knowledge, not emergent truth — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 2103; Wikipedia embodied the internet’s democratizing promise of universal knowledge — W. David Marx, Blank Space: A Cultural History of the…, 264; Web 2.0 celebratory claims faded into structural critiques — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 47 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Wikipedia embodied the internet’s democratizing promise of universal knowledge #qualifies (0.85) — W. David Marx, Blank Space, 264
• Web 2.0 celebratory claims faded into structural critiques #expands (0.80) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 47
• Personalized internet feeds destroyed shared common knowledge and split the public into oppositional realities #complicates (0.75)