I saw a damning YouTube movie on Wikipedia's decay this weekend. Apparently, the crowdsourced encyclopedia concept has become long-lived enough to become bogged down with rules creating a hierarchy in which some users have more clout to make edits that stick than the noobs. The "heroes" of Wikipedia unfortunately have bias, especially political bias. The high water mark for number of participants happened over a decade ago and now the site is trending away from being written by the public towards being written by its heroes. My source disses the anonymous sources at Wikipedia and points a finger at how the real encyclopedias in the 80s had sources, so I'll give her as a source.
source: Helen of desTroy
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