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{{cquote|To me, Wikipedia is a political project. It is all about knowledge autonomy. As governments acoss the world are introducing ever more meticulous control measures on internet activity and daily "real" life, the importance of decentralized knowledge sharing spaces such as Wikipedia, is becoming more obvious with each passing day. |
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Applying the academic principles of transparency and peer review in the broad encyclopedia context is the single most powerful feature of Wikipedia. This is effectively a decentralization of power, and it creates a truly democratic and living space on the internet. |
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Now that you can access Wikipedia freely from cell phones etc, life has changed for the better. It's like having the hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy in your pocket!}} |
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{{cquote|In the winter of 2008 my wife and I lived in China. We had 8 months without employment while we waited for some bureaucratic procedures to work their way through the system. We made the most of opportunities to travel throughout the country, and I spent a lot of time on my computer researching supporting information for my travelogue which I emailed to NZ periodically. I guess I was a bit naive to expect that the communist government there wouldn't really have any overt impact on our day-to-day lives. I was very wrong about that, and one of the ways that showed up was that the Wikipedia site was blocked to users on the net. The day I visited the museum in Dandong commemorating the Chinese participation in the Korean war and read their 'official' version of that chapter of history, I could see why. I was shocked and deeply disturbed to learn that they teach today's schoolchildren the same propaganda. For me Wikipedia became a symbol of freedom, and the truth. It has always been a very useful and reliable source of information, but the value of access to the honest truth is priceless.}} |
{{cquote|In the winter of 2008 my wife and I lived in China. We had 8 months without employment while we waited for some bureaucratic procedures to work their way through the system. We made the most of opportunities to travel throughout the country, and I spent a lot of time on my computer researching supporting information for my travelogue which I emailed to NZ periodically. I guess I was a bit naive to expect that the communist government there wouldn't really have any overt impact on our day-to-day lives. I was very wrong about that, and one of the ways that showed up was that the Wikipedia site was blocked to users on the net. The day I visited the museum in Dandong commemorating the Chinese participation in the Korean war and read their 'official' version of that chapter of history, I could see why. I was shocked and deeply disturbed to learn that they teach today's schoolchildren the same propaganda. For me Wikipedia became a symbol of freedom, and the truth. It has always been a very useful and reliable source of information, but the value of access to the honest truth is priceless.}} |
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