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Wikipedia Has Been A Safe Haven From The Online Culture Wars. That Time May Be Over.
The once-derided open-source encyclopedia is the closest thing the internet has to an oasis of truth. Now a single-user ban has exposed the deep rifts between Wikipedia's libertarian origins and its egalitarian aspirations, and threatened that stability.
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Truth? Wikipedia?? A safe haven from culture wars!!? The author's details about the current kerfuffle may be correct--I haven't been following it--but no one who's serious about research trusts Wikipedia . Behind the scenes Wikipedia authors and editors have been fighting each other tooth and nail ever since it rolled out the door.