Wikipedia's Open Content Doublespeak
Background:
In 1995, software developer Howard ("Ward") Cunningham created the first "wiki" and named it "WikiWikiWeb." A wiki is an open source website or page on which content is written and updated by users. The name came from the Hawaiian word for "quick," the idea being that pages could be generated quickly to expedite the exchange of ideas. In 2001, internet entrepreneur Jimmy Wales and philosophy professor Larry Sanger applied the concept to launch Wikipedia as a free, open-content encyclopedia. Sanger left in 2002, expressing criticism of the site's accuracy and credibility.
In 2003, Wales founded the Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) as a nonprofit to house and...
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