Wikipedia
Posted on December 31, 2007
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Wikipedia continues to amaze me… is there nothing that’s not written up on this massive, emergent encyclopedia of everything? Recently, I heard Rufus Wainwright’s version of the song ‘Hallelujah‘… curious, I searched Wikipedia, and sure enough found a long writeup, noting that Leonard Cohen wrote it and including lists of many of the artists who have covered this song that is regarded as a standard - all news to me. And, of course, I read the article on Leonard Cohen, too…
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The concept of “The Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy” has finally been realized in the form of Wikipedia. It’s a tragedy that Douglas Adams isn’t alive to see it.
Wikipedia contributors deserve as much credit since they chose to contribute to a single information source instead of creating their own.