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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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[-] Zedstrian@sopuli.xyz 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I don't like Fandom as a commercial platform any more than you do, but in-universe topics for niche fandoms simply don't belong on Wikipedia; they would make it harder for editors to focus copyediting time on articles that matter far more to most people.

There are nonprofit wiki farm alternatives to Fandom that are a better solution to that problem.

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