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My experience with Wikipedia and academics was that it too often failed precisely because too many people tweaked it. I do not mean just - too many cooks - but any central theme presenting one person's considered understanding was lost by added details and
clarifications. Zig-Zag. <span style="font-size: 10pt;">That is, a stale </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">encyclopedia and not a lively </span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">story.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">For project reports submitted to me, I would not allow a Wikipedia reference unless a </span>second<span style="font-size: 10pt;"> source was also used. </span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">I have been familiar with Wikipedia, but had no idea wiki was a format for posting. </span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, July 7, 2017 4:33 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Bernard Arthur Hutchins Jr<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Rob Kam; synth-diy@synth-diy.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [sdiy] Can anyone OCR the AN23.PDF File Here?</font>
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> On Jul 7, 2017, at 11:08 AM, Bernard Arthur Hutchins Jr <bah13@cornell.edu> wrote:<br>
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> And I do not know why I would want to post on a medium that anyone could change.<br>
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Indeed. A Wiki is designed for a collection of material where the content is continuously edited and expanded by a changing group of contributors.<br>
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For EN, you've already got the content, don't want to mess with that, the issue is presentation. And Wiki has severely limited presentation options. It doesn't even have the sequential presentation of a book.<br>
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> But you are absolutely right that not many folks want to work - 140 characters is the attention span I guess.<br>
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A Wiki works when the contributors feel they are sufficiently rewarded, fulfilled, entertained, or whatever.<br>
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Wikipedia works because people are rewarded by sharing their expertise; 40 million articles, 250 languages, maybe 100 million contributors.<br>
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-- Don<br>
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