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What Wikipedia teaches us about balancing truth and beliefs | Katherine Maher

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What Makes Wikipedia So Different?

Wikipedia is edited entirely by volunteers, ordinary people from all over the world. All of the decisions about encyclopedic content and organizational policies take place in a transparent and open fashion. This means that Wikipedia can continue to change as the world changes around it,. But I think one of the most critical things that I found really important is that its model pushes us to work together into deliberation and into conversation so that the end result is reasonable and fair.

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