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The Hofmann Wobble

by Ben Lerner,

Wikipedia and the problem of historical memory

From entries on Wikipedia written by the user AmaryllisGardener. AmaryllisGardener, a nineteen-year-old from North Carolina, has written more than twenty-three thousand articles for Scots Wikipedia but cannot speak Scots, a…

Fact Minders

From a list of Wikipedia editors that the site has flagged because of long-term abuse.

Rule, Britannica

by John Crowley,

They look like a segment of Borges’s Library of Babel: twenty-four volumes almost uniform in bulk (a thousand pages each, give or take a few), identically bound in a reddish-brown…

Where Edit Is Due

From additions to Wikipedia entries on women with significant achievements in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, made by volunteers during an event hosted by Brown University last October. An estimated…

Help!

From comments on the Wikipedia entry for the Beatles. Last fall, Wikipedia conducted a community-wide poll to settle the below dispute, which began in 2004. Users voted for lowercase “the.”…

Revision Accomplished

by James Bridle,

Candid camera

by Harper’s Staff,

Wikipedia

The Hofmann Wobble

Scotched Efforts

Fact Minders

Rule, Britannica

Where Edit Is Due

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The Hofmann Wobble

Scotched Efforts

Fact Minders

Rule, Britannica

Where Edit Is Due

Help!

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July 2008

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