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Wikipedia’s Pyrrhic Victory (www.newyorker.com)
submitted 1 week ago by antonim@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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One “very senior Wikimedian,” we are told, “came to think of the project as a ‘city built by Asperger’s.’ ”

If you get the paywall, it's readable at http://archive.today/R2rnW

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[–] antonim@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Made them free to access and download, if the book is in the public domain or under a Creative Commons license. Allowed limited access if copyrighted (through some weirdly legal solution where they technically "loan" the book to you while you view it in your browser), although that option has been partly limited in the recent years due to lawsuits by book publishers.

https://archive.org/details/texts

[–] kestrel7_7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

No I mean like the physical books. What happened to them after they were scanned?