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The more, the wikier

Why is Wikipedia as good as it is? While the debate about precisely what level of goodness that entails has been heated, the free online encyclopaedia offers a better standard of information than many would have expected from a resource that absolutely anyone can write and edit.

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Posted by Nicola Jones on February 27, 2007 07:37 PM |

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I would love to read more 'there', but unfortunately some kind of authorization is required. Could you please avoid sending people to restricted sites, or at least warn before? It's just annoying.

[Editor's note: Hello. This story is actually free, so I'm not sure why you can't access it? Do let us know if there's a problem. All of our online only stories are free for a week before they drop behind a paid firewall. If we blog about other, paid content, which is not free for a week, then we do add a note here to let you know.]

Posted by: dileffante | February 27, 2007 09:22 PM

Yep, I finally could read the story, not by clicking, but by copy-pasting the link address and replacing the 'xxxxx' with 'www'; I guess it was pasted into the page from some intranet url. Thanks for caring!

[Editor's note: whoops. This has been fixed]

Posted by: dileffante | February 28, 2007 12:51 PM

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