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britannica storms wikipedia - networked accumulatio Post date  04.04.2005, 2:04 PM

posted by ben vershbow

wikipediaSurvivorTee.png Beginning on as an april fool's prank, Britannica's hostile takeover of Wikipedia has snowballed over the past few days into a sprawling collaborative goof-off on a nerdy conspiracy theory. The article is currently being considered for deletion, or consignment to Wikipedia's Bad Jokes and Other Deleted Nonsense archive. A funny specimen of web accumulatio (thanks, Infocult).

Posted by ben vershbow on April 4, 2005 02:04 PM
tags: the_networked_book

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