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Wikipedia’s Pyrrhic Victory (www.newyorker.com)
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One “very senior Wikimedian,” we are told, “came to think of the project as a ‘city built by Asperger’s.’ ”

If you get the paywall, it's readable at http://archive.today/R2rnW

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[-] frongt@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago

Just the data storage for a small text file.

That's not true. It's an entry in a database. That means it has to be indexed for search, and counted for "all pages where..." types of queries. It has to be replicated between database shards. You scale up your number of records, and you start hitting database, application, and operating system limits.

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