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“For Wikipedia, being engraved into eternity represented a triumph long delayed.”
“It could, with justification, be called a hyperpedia, or a massively multi-editor online encyclopedia.”
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“Among them is an object called the Lunar Library.”
“It is also the last encyclopedia humans will ever write.”
“Once seen as a literary production of enormous size, it also turns out to have a hidden pedigree in the humanities.”
“Some called it the first digital wonder of the world, yet it had reached this milestone to meager fanfare.”
“Wikipedia is not only the largest encyclopedia written by humans.”
“Scott in 1971, the Lunar Library’s form is impervious to gamma radiation and expected to last billions of years.”
“Out of the crooked timber of Wikipedia’s imperfections, wonder has been made.”
“A modern encyclopedia compiles summaries of knowledge; a wiki is a page on the internet that can be edited by anyone.”
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“This lack of curiosity might explain the scarcity of nonacademic books about Wikipedia.”
“Meanwhile, the memories of the people who made Wikipedia, though fading, can still be accessed.”
“It is a kind of ark, designed to preserve an everlasting cultural memory of human civilization.”
“Though Wikipedia has been consulted trillions of times and read by billions of people, very few of those billions know how it works or where it came from.”
“Digital empires, once fallen, leave few ruins.”
“Wikipedia can barely fill a shelf, and its early period as a “startup” is even less represented.”
“Thanks to artificial intelligence, we must apply the new description “human-authored” to Wikipedia, and the circumstances that created it have foreclosed.”
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“Not only do philosophy, literature, and history play a part in this story, but so do less expected influences like architecture and poetry.”
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