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{{cquote|I have been an independent writer for 38 years. I live by the efficiency and accuracy of my research, and over the past several years Wikipedia has become the "first stop" on almost every research project I undertake. The breadth of entries is amazing and the accuracy of the information in articles has steadily improved to the point where I find few discrepancies anymore between Wikipedia articles and the most trusted professional resources. For me, Wikipedia has evolved beyond an experiment and become an essential tool.}} |
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{{cquote|Wikipedia embodies some of my most cherished values: I believe that open access to knowledge is an avenue to a more open society. It's not enough. We must cultivate an attentive and equanimous spirit. Yet, Wikipedia is a necessary condition for a more democratic and freer society. After I graduated from my doctoral program in the US and then got a position at a college, I never hesitated to encourage my students to go to wikipedia as a starting point of their inquiries. When I was a young student, checking specialized dictionaries, such as the Dictionary on Politics, a superb collection of articles edited by Norberto Bobbio and Niccola Matteucci, was very important to me: each article I read provided me with a basic grasp of fundamental concepts. Wikipedia is for me what used to be that Dictionary of Politics but ten times, one hundred times, one million times much more useful and important. |
{{cquote|Wikipedia embodies some of my most cherished values: I believe that open access to knowledge is an avenue to a more open society. It's not enough. We must cultivate an attentive and equanimous spirit. Yet, Wikipedia is a necessary condition for a more democratic and freer society. After I graduated from my doctoral program in the US and then got a position at a college, I never hesitated to encourage my students to go to wikipedia as a starting point of their inquiries. When I was a young student, checking specialized dictionaries, such as the Dictionary on Politics, a superb collection of articles edited by Norberto Bobbio and Niccola Matteucci, was very important to me: each article I read provided me with a basic grasp of fundamental concepts. Wikipedia is for me what used to be that Dictionary of Politics but ten times, one hundred times, one million times much more useful and important. |
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I'd like to add that I have a debt with wikipedia that I plan to redeem. I am about to open an account and become one of its anonymous contributors. This is Renaissance for all of us. By participating in this project, we become involved in a wonderful transformation of the way we see and experience the world. This is what Douglas Rushkoff aptly captured in his oposcule “Open Source Democracy.” When I read his work, I said to myself, “I have to make this work become available to people who only speak Spanish.” Then I translated it and published it at archive.org and added a copyleft sign to my signature as a translator. As I said, it's time for me now to make a similar contribution to a wikipedia. I want to have the honour of being not only one of its advocates, promoters, supporters, but also become one of its anonymous, humble makers.}} |
I'd like to add that I have a debt with wikipedia that I plan to redeem. I am about to open an account and become one of its anonymous contributors. This is Renaissance for all of us. By participating in this project, we become involved in a wonderful transformation of the way we see and experience the world. This is what Douglas Rushkoff aptly captured in his oposcule “Open Source Democracy.” When I read his work, I said to myself, “I have to make this work become available to people who only speak Spanish.” Then I translated it and published it at archive.org and added a copyleft sign to my signature as a translator. As I said, it's time for me now to make a similar contribution to a wikipedia. I want to have the honour of being not only one of its advocates, promoters, supporters, but also become one of its anonymous, humble makers.}} |
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