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Wikipedia often gets taken for granted – but its history is fascinating, and its future is fragile
Source: The Guardian · Published
<p>Wikipedia’s 68m articles have been consulted trillions of times. Not bad for a website that has barely changed since it was founded 20 years ago</p><p>A few years ago, I was struck by the tension…
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