Perhaps Wikipedia exists due to its willingness to compromise on integrity, something that Western commercial entities were hesitant to do. An free online encyc

Perhaps Wikipedia exists due to its willingness to compromise on integrity, something that Western commercial entities were hesitant to do. An free online encyclopedia was a gap in the Internet you could drive a car through. 'I found it on Wikipedia' remains a euphemism for unreliable research, and participation in the project can be understood as an appeal to what Jean Baudrillard[1] understood as our primordial need to reproduce. Indeed I edit Wikipedia, because I like the sound of my voice. Much the same reason I posted this comment. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baudrillard