Gwern — Wikipedia↗

Network effects & benefits of gritting one’s teeth & submitting to a Wikipedia’s rules, rather than using Wikia or one’s own site. “You also raise an interesting point about specialized wikis.

Cynical tactics encouraged by Wikipedia’s abdication of thought known as ‘No Original Research’ and ‘Reliable Sources’ One of the most distasteful aspects of Wikipedia editing these days...

Google’s Wikipedia-killer, Google Knol , has passed some anniversaries; in January 2009 17ya , it reached its 6-month anniversary.

Why Wikipedia and YouTube will never be integrated. Criticisms of Wikipedia tend to fall into 2 categories—the clueless and the cliche.

A precis of my old work on the English Wikipedia, 2004–2017 (edit counts, articles by subject, and particularly notable articles)

English Wikipedia is in decline. As a long-time editor & former admin, I was deeply dismayed by the process.