• Posted by Tim Jarrett
  • On September 7, 2006

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Open encyclopedias, with open arguments

I love the lamest edit wars page on Wikipedia. It’s academic humor writ large, and is a microcosm of politics, geekdom, transliteration, and other hair-splitting pursuits. Was Copernicus Polish, German, or Prussian? If Nikolai Tesla was born in a part of Austria-Hungary that is now part of Croatia, was he Austrian, Hungarian, or Croat? More [...]