A couple of months ago, a writer friend proudly tweeted about his annual donation to Wikipedia. He noted its function as the world's first resource when looking into factual topics and admitted that it had replaced the almanacs he once bought every year. He even kvelled over its capacity to surpass them: The Wiki entry on rivers by length, for example, runs on for a highly un-almanac-like 181 rivers.He's right, of course. We no longer breathlessly await the publication of, say, the [...]
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