It's like some vast aerial city with people walking briskly to and fro on catwalks, carrying picnic baskets full of nutritious snacks. (Nicholson Baker in The New York Review of Books on Wikipedia, the subject a new book, "Wikipedia: The Missing Manual."
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It was like a giant community leaf-raking project in which everyone was called a groundskeeper.
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The fragments from original sources persist like those stony bits of classical buildings incorporated in a medieval wall.
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For researchers it's a place to look stuff up, [Brion] Vibber said, but for editors "it's almost more like an online game, in that it's a community where you hang out a bit, and do something that's a little bit of fun: you whack some trolls, you build some material, etcetera."
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On December 7, 2007, somebody altered the long article on bedbugs so that it read like a horror movie....
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If an article bristles with some quotes from external sources these may, like the bushy hairs on a caterpillar, make it harder to kill.
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When I managed to help save something I was quietly thrilled—I walked tall, like Henry Fonda in "Twelve Angry Men."
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