The Wikipedia story

Jason M. Breslow

A glance at the current issue of The New Yorker: The Wikipedia story

In less than six years, Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that allows nearly anyone to write or edit entries, has become the Internet's 17th most visited site. It has hundreds of thousands of contributors, and in March it hit the one-million-articles mark. In an essay about Wikipedia's history and impact on scholarship thus far, Stacy Schiff, an author and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in biography,